Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Lessons done at school or to be done at home.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Work done for school, including both in class and
homework .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a school task performed by a student to satisfy the teacher
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Examples
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Focus on your lessons and don't get distracted until your schoolwork is completed.
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Focus on your lessons and don't get distracted until your schoolwork is completed.
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Playing my last season of baseball is what kept me from completely losing what little interest in schoolwork I had at that point.
All we need is Blog? Ed 2003
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Playing my last season of baseball is what kept me from completely losing what little interest in schoolwork I had at that point.
Archive 2003-09-01 Ed 2003
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She’s hipdeep in schoolwork right now and can’t run the game, but I’d love to play it sometime.)
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Hey juliet i am sure you have heard i love your books before but i can’t refrian from saying it because it is the truth i love your books they mean so much to me! whenever i am out of reading material or not drouwning in schoolwork i always choose one of your books to read!!!
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Juliet Marillier, Part 1 2006
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That marvelous original conceit — that a teenager, who should be out there having fun and not worrying about much of anything except schoolwork, is actually carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders — means something different when we’re talking about a real grownup with real responsibilities.
“It’s a story of ultimate triumph tainted with the bitterness …” | PopPolitics.com 2003
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That marvelous original conceit — that a teenager, who should be out there having fun and not worrying about much of anything except schoolwork, is actually carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders — means something different when we’re talking about a real grownup with real responsibilities.
“It’s a story of ultimate triumph tainted with the bitterness …” | PopPolitics.com 2003
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So I've done what I used to do in school when I fell behind with my schoolwork, which is just give up altogether.
Archive 2008-05-01 BikeSnobNYC 2008
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So I've done what I used to do in school when I fell behind with my schoolwork, which is just give up altogether.
From the BSNYC Culture Desk: Nerds and Bikes BikeSnobNYC 2008
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