teacherage
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A house near a school where teachers live, often in the countryside
- noun
- Archaic
:
vivienda para maestros
- After school, the teachers often gather at the teacherage to share ideas and plans.
Examples
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He has put in about a thousand days in the navy by now, and Winona even more in the teacherage at Ringling, and across such a space of young life maybe a p75 sag sets in.
Fiction book (1993) -
The teacher lives in a small teacherage near the school where she works.
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In rural communities, a teacherage provides educators with convenient housing.
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
teacherage singular
teacherages plural
Morphology
Etymology
Teacherage combines teacher with the ending -age, used like in parsonage to mean a 'house' for someone. So a teacherage is a house provided for teachers to live in, often near a rural school.