school of thought

English

Noun

school of thought (plural schools of thought)

1. A group of people who share common characteristics of opinion or outlook of a philosophy.

   He did not belong to the school of thought that believed Jackson Pollock to be much of an artist.

   • 2018 September 21, Mark Rice-Oxley, “Don't mention the R-word”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     But there is a school of thought that holds that the more you talk about recession, the more likely it is to transpire.

Translations

opinion subscribed to by some connected or arbitrary group

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 學派 / 学派 (zh) (xuépài), 流派 (zh) (liúpài), 派別 / 派别 (zh) (pàibié)

• Dutch: denkrichting (nl) f, school (nl) f, stroming (nl) f
• Esperanto: skolo (eo)
• Finnish: koulukunta (fi)
• French: école de pensée (fr) f, courant de pensée (fr) m
• German: Schule (de) f, wissenschaftliche Schule f (science), Denkschule (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: αἵρεσις f (haíresis)

• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: scuola di pensiero f
• Japanese: 学派 (ja) (がくは, gakuha), 流派 (ja) (りゅうは, ryūha)
• Korean: 학파 (ko) (hakpa)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: szkoła (pl) f
• Portuguese: escola de pensamento f
• Russian: шко́ла (ru) f (škóla) (в нау́ке и́ли иску́сстве), шко́ла мы́сли f (škóla mýsli), нау́чная шко́ла f (naúčnaja škóla) (scientific school)
• Spanish: escuela de pensamiento f
• Swedish: lära (sv) c, doktrin (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: школа (uk) (škola)
• Vietnamese: trường phái (vi)

See also

• ideology

References

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “School of thought”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.