schoolroom

noun

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

Examples of schoolroom in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Kelce needn’t demonstrate expertise, and neither does the panel of celebrity-class obscurities: Nicole Byer, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Ron Funches, Lala Kent, and Sophia Stallone, who each recall schoolroom nobodies. Armond White, National Review, 16 Oct. 2024 The exhibition also included a roughly ten-minute video, The Fall, 2020, which is set in a schoolroom and features a twelve-year-old boy falling in his chair in slow motion. Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024 Students in Mindy Neiland's elementary school complained of headaches, nausea and nosebleeds this week as a potentially record-breaking heat wave struck the West Coast and baked schoolrooms from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024 Along with wooden benches and a replica stove, the schoolroom walls are lined with panels outlining its history, only one of which — a poster with the portraits of all 19 Republican presidents, ranging in chronology and ideology from Abraham Lincoln to Trump — appears overtly partisan. David Maraniss, Washington Post, 15 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for schoolroom 

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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 24 Oct. 2024.

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schoolroom

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

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