schoolroom

noun

school·​room ˈskül-ˌrüm How to pronounce schoolroom (audio)
-ˌru̇m

Examples of schoolroom in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Deborah bopped from the cafeteria to another schoolroom, where another precinct was sharing the space. Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024 Down an alleyway no wider than 3 feet, in one of Dhaka’s thousands of teeming informal settlements, is a bright little schoolroom filled with tiny wooden tables. Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Nov. 2023 Including, in one Utah county, the Bible, which was taken from schoolroom shelves, like so many other books, as a result of a parental complaint — one apparently intended to expose the absurdity of such bans in the first place. A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 June 2023 Cleaning up their brains off the wall, wiping the blood off the schoolroom floor? Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023 The town near Cedar Key on the Gulf Coast was once populated mostly by Black residents who built homes, a church, a Masonic lodge, a schoolroom and other community buildings. Lori Rozsa, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2023 For one family with five home-schooled children, the designers built a schoolroom for the backyard. Rodney Ho, ajc, 15 Aug. 2022 Nowhere is the schoolroom axiom more true than in the 2023 Pegasus World Cup: The bottom half of the class makes the top half of the class possible. Guy Martin, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023 Their attempt is completely upstaged by the call’s rolling sidebar of messages which are plastered across the white back wall and ceiling of Rob Howells’ schoolroom set. David Benedict, Variety, 26 Sep. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1752, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of schoolroom was in 1752

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“Schoolroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schoolroom. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

schoolroom

noun
school·​room -ˌrüm How to pronounce schoolroom (audio)
-ˌru̇m

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