All 13 Uses

composition
in
The Catcher in the Rye
(Edited)

I mean I didn't have to do any work in English at all hardly, except write compositions once in a while.
p. 15.1

compositions = essays
How 'bout writing a composition for me, for English?
p. 37.1

composition = essay
"I'm the one that's flunking out of the goddam place, and you're asking me to write you a goddam composition," I said.
p. 37.2
I mean if you're good at writing compositions and somebody starts talking about commas.
p. 37.9

compositions = essays
He wanted you to think that the only reason he was lousy at writing compositions was because he stuck all the commas in the wrong place.
p. 37.9 *
Are ya gonna write that composition for me?
p. 39.2

composition = essay
"Do that composition for me," he said.
p. 45.3
Anyway, finally I had to come right out and tell him that I had to write a composition for Stradlater, and that he had to clear the hell out, so I could concentrate.
p. 49.3
After he left, I put on my pajamas and bathrobe and my old hunting hat, and started writing the composition.
p. 49.4
Anyway, that's what I wrote Stradlater's composition about.
p. 51.1
Then when he was taking off his tie, he asked me if I'd written his goddam composition for him.
p. 53.4
I'll show you the door in short order if you flunked English, you little ace composition writer.
p. 237.8
"I only wrote about two compositions the whole term," I said.
p. 237.9

compositions = essays

Definitions:

(1) (composition as in: the composition of the audience)
the parts that make up something, something made up of parts, or the way it is put together
(2) (composition as in: an original composition)
a creative work, the way the creative work is put together, or the act of creating it

Context will sometimes make clear that the creative work is the writing of music or an essay, but it can anything -- such as the way the components of a picture are arranged.
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)