: a classroom where pupils report especially at the beginning of each school day
Examples of homeroom in a Sentence
They were assigned to different homerooms.
He was late for homeroom.
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Grab a backpack — and maybe a pair of garden gloves — and head to homeroom at Oakley Elementary School, where learning often looks more like a farm than a traditional classroom.
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Alexa Liacko, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
Everyone was wearing the floppy style, from movie stars to the kid in your homeroom.
—Kara Nesvig, Parents, 11 Jan. 2026
Homeroom placement was designated by test scores, and Smith rightly recalled that her homeroom class with Tupac was filled by twenty-eight Black students — and a gawky white kid named William Yates.
—Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Their gumshoeing is eventually interrupted by Mom, who turns up to take Francis to school, probably because Lee can’t be trusted to get her there by homeroom.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025
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Alexa Liacko, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
Everyone was wearing the floppy style, from movie stars to the kid in your homeroom.
—Kara Nesvig, Parents, 11 Jan. 2026
Homeroom placement was designated by test scores, and Smith rightly recalled that her homeroom class with Tupac was filled by twenty-eight Black students — and a gawky white kid named William Yates.
—Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Their gumshoeing is eventually interrupted by Mom, who turns up to take Francis to school, probably because Lee can’t be trusted to get her there by homeroom.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for homeroom
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“Homeroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homeroom. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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homeroom
noun
home·room
ˈhōm-ˌrüm 
-ˌru̇m
: a classroom where pupils report usually at the beginning of each school day
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