: 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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Students on the campus of Plymouth-Canton Educational Park, which houses the three high schools, walked around a small bus loop between the schools, holding signs and chanting for about 45 minutes during their homeroom Wednesday morning.
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Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 25 Mar. 2026
The kids were seated alphabetically when Flutie reported to homeroom class his sophomore year at Natick High.
—Dan Pompei, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
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.
—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
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Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 25 Mar. 2026
The kids were seated alphabetically when Flutie reported to homeroom class his sophomore year at Natick High.
—Dan Pompei, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
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.
—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
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“Homeroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homeroom. Accessed 3 Apr. 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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