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home room

home room

1 2.1
A classroom where students meet each morning for attendance and school notices with their teacher
  • noun
  • US
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  • I spoke with Eliza Ramirez, a freshman who said she feels alienated from her own home room.

Examples

  • How to Organize Your Home Room by Room

    Blog text (3)

  • The girls in home-room were right.

    Not of This Earth (1988)

  • Oh, it's like we're back in home room all over again!

    The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009)

  • Wait till, l tell the guys in home room.

    American Desi (2001)

  • Fred, from 10th grade home room!

    The Substance (2024)

  • He fell asleep in home room this morning.

    Lights Out (2016)

  • I spent my home room playing addictinggames.com little helicopter game.

  • For instance: sharing a nursing home room, hospital visitation rights, wills/pension stuff.

    Blog text (7)

  • Pastor WeIIs, wouId you pIease show Henry and Audrey to the home room?

    Raising Helen (2004)

  • The students gathered in their home room for morning announcements.

Synonyms

classroom
vshome room
502 1.0

A room in a school where teachers teach lessons

is used instead for regular group meetings for attendance and administrative tasks
homeroom
vshome room
  • US
35 2.8

A classroom where a group of students meet each morning for attendance and school notices

is the meeting space used regularly for attendance and admin without timing note
schoolroom
vshome room
6 1.0

A room in a school where children have lessons

is a specific meeting place for grade or section administrative tasks

Surface Forms

home room singular
home rooms plural

Morphology

home + room

The parts 'home' and 'room' are individually transparent, but the specific school-administrative sense (a designated classroom for attendance and organization) is a conventionalized institutional meaning that is not directly derivable from the literal combination. A B1 learner who knows the words might guess a room related to 'home' or a main/base room, but the school-specific usage is somewhat specialized and could be ambiguous without prior exposure.

Etymology

Home room comes from the idea of a small home inside the school, a regular room where students meet each morning with their teacher. So, it means 'a classroom where a particular group gathers for attendance and school notices'.