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schoolhouse

schoolhouse

28 1.5
A building where children learn, often a single room in a village
  • noun
  • /ˈskuːlˌhaʊs/
  • Archaic
translation icon : escuela
  • The next morning, Ichabod arrived at the schoolhouse and saw a shocking scene.
  • a one-room schoolhouse
  • an old schoolhouse
  • schoolhouse room

He sees humans his size go into this little schoolhouse classroom.

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Examples

  • It's a little one-room schoolhouse that my grandmother taught at a long time ago.

  • There were still these one room schoolhouses where black individuals were educating their own community.

  • Past the old schoolhouse, you turn left.

  • Then she led me to the back of the schoolhouse where there was a bathroom.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • My boy is in the schoolhouse!

  • I reckon the new schoolhouse is finally done.

  • I'm sure they miss her down at the schoolhouse.

  • At eighteen, he began teaching in a one-room schoolhouse, teaching himself as he taught his pupils.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Childhood dreams were born in a one-room clapboard schoolhouse with eight grades huddled around a coal stove.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • In the small town, the old schoolhouse still serves as a community center for local events.

Synonyms

school
vsschoolhouse
1.0

A place where children or young people go to learn

is the specific building used for teaching often a traditional one room

How Big

campus
716 2.1
schoolhouse
  • Archaic
28 1.5
classroom
502 1.0

Surface Forms

schoolhouse singular
schoolhouses plural

Morphology

schoolhouse = school + house (transparent) = school + house

The meaning is directly the combination of 'school' + 'house' (a building where schooling occurs), which is straightforward for learners.

Etymology

The word schoolhouse comes from joining school ('a place to learn') and house ('a building'), so it literally names the 'house' where learning happens. That's why a schoolhouse means a building where children are taught, often the small, traditional one-room school in a village.