Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A classroom.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A room for teaching: as, the duties of the school-room.
- noun School accommodation: as, the city needs more school-room.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A room in which pupils are taught.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
classroom , a room in a school used for instruction.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a room in a school where lessons take place
Etymologies
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Examples
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One main schoolroom is now the living room, and the stage it contains is our dining area.
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The schoolroom is not the place to teach any young child language, least of all the deaf child.
The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905
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How do you sex up the banal fact that every tenth child in the world who never sees the inside of a schoolroom is a Pakistani child?
Osama bin Laden death: No mourning or celebration in Pakistan 2011
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It has been the perfect schoolroom, that is, for fine and subtle artists.
National Portrait Gallery's 'Hide/Seek' finds a frame for sexual identity Blake Gopnik 2010
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The schoolroom was a pretty large hall, on the quietest side of the house, confronted by the stately stare of some half – dozen of the great urns, and commanding a peep of an old secluded garden belonging to the Doctor, where the peaches were ripening on the sunny south wall.
David Copperfield 2007
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There was a long schoolroom, where such men as Meekin taught how Christ loved little children; and behind the schoolroom were the cells and the constables and the little yard where they gave their "twenty lashes".
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The schoolroom was a cramped corner of the hall, close to a narrow window for light.
The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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The schoolroom was a cramped corner of the hall, close to a narrow window for light.
The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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The schoolroom was a desert, arid and unsatisfying; whereas the garden, the enclosed space which held stained cups of beauty and purple gold-eyed bells, that was
Austin and His Friends Frederic H. Balfour
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Adjacent to the schoolroom was a large garden in the middle of which was a jessamine arbor.
A Portrait of Old George Town Grace Dunlop Peter
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