Definition of schoolhouse
: a building used as a school and especially as an elementary school
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Last year, a group of teenagers vandalized a historic black schoolhouse with swastikas and hate speech.
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Lakeview, which recently celebrated its 100th anniversary, began as two-room schoolhouse that originally served as a high school and an elementary school before becoming part of Fort Bend ISD in 1959.
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Sunday Deerfield Historic Village - Sunday Tours: Visit the oldest building in Lake County, the 180-year-old Caspar Ott log house, pre-Civil War era houses and a one-room schoolhouse that has been a favorite with children for many years.
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This is a major fundraiser for the continual upkeep of the society's two museum buildings and 1840 one-room schoolhouse on Bevin Boulevard.
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Truth be told, the ensuing decades have seen a radical trimming back of Fortas’s conception of what rights are and are not shed at the schoolhouse door.
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These students have grown up in Columbine’s shadow, with locker searches, locked schoolhouse doors, bulletproof backpacks and active shooter drills.
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Other outreach efforts include officers assigned by Spike to give bicycle- and buggy-safety presentations at the many local one-room Mennonite schoolhouses.
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An unconventional program called the Bucks Learning Cooperative run out of an old white schoolhouse in Langhorne where a teen’s interests set the curriculum.
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First Known Use of schoolhouse
14th century
SCHOOLHOUSE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of schoolhouse for English Language Learners
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: a building that is used as a school
SCHOOLHOUSE Defined for Kids
Definition of schoolhouse for Students
plural schoolhouses
\-ˌhau̇-zəz\
: a building used as a place for teaching and learning
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