: 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.
Recent Examples on the Web
Well, perhaps that’s because Fatu has entered the game hitting nothing but homerooms, breathing new life into an already legendary angle.
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Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
Schools do their best to schedule pull-out programs to coincide with the homeroom classes, for example, a student goes out for reading help during the classroom reading time, or gifted math during math time.
—Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
The graduating class finds their simpatico homeroom teacher replaced by a humorless, by-the-book type, and the Music Research Club is deemed a fire hazard and shut down, the electronic equipment locked away in a storeroom.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2024
Would anyone from your high school homeroom be part of your zombie apocalypse team?
—Megan Vick, EW.com, 30 May 2024
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Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
Schools do their best to schedule pull-out programs to coincide with the homeroom classes, for example, a student goes out for reading help during the classroom reading time, or gifted math during math time.
—Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
The graduating class finds their simpatico homeroom teacher replaced by a humorless, by-the-book type, and the Music Research Club is deemed a fire hazard and shut down, the electronic equipment locked away in a storeroom.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Sep. 2024
Would anyone from your high school homeroom be part of your zombie apocalypse team?
—Megan Vick, EW.com, 30 May 2024
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 22 Oct. 2024.
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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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