schoolroom
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- noun
- /ˈskuːlˌruːm/
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- After the bell rang, the children quickly left the schoolroom to go outside for recess.
Not as your schoolroom globe showed it to you.
- Not as your schoolroom globe showed it to you.
Examples
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Sister, the schoolroom is overflowing with children.
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And through the unwashed windows, light slants into the schoolroom, where the day will pass slowly.
Fiction book (2002) -
Oh, does our little schoolroom please you?
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You and your friends... will return to the schoolroom... and put it back in order.
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Girls, get in the schoolroom.
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I shall be in the schoolroom.
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Show Miss Fassbender to the schoolroom.
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Here is a map from the USA, recognizably similar to the ones found in schoolrooms around the country.
Academic text (2000) -
From schoolrooms and playgrounds, from kitchens and nurseries, the children came.
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In a cold schoolroom in Leeds, Miss McDevitt said, "Quentin, you're to stay after."
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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A room in a school where teachers teach lessons
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A classroom where a group of students meet each morning for attendance and school notices
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A classroom where students meet each morning for attendance and school notices with their teacher
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Etymology
Schoolroom is made of school and room, so it simply means a 'room' for 'school' or learning. The word school once meant 'free time' and later became a word for a place to learn, which is why a schoolroom is literally a place to learn.