schoolroom

noun

school·​room ˈskül-ˌrüm How to pronounce schoolroom (audio)
-ˌru̇m

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Kelce needn’t demonstrate expertise, and neither does the panel of celebrity-class obscurities: Nicole Byer, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Ron Funches, Lala Kent, and Sophia Stallone, who each recall schoolroom nobodies. Armond White, National Review, 16 Oct. 2024 The exhibition also included a roughly ten-minute video, The Fall, 2020, which is set in a schoolroom and features a twelve-year-old boy falling in his chair in slow motion. Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024 Students in Mindy Neiland's elementary school complained of headaches, nausea and nosebleeds this week as a potentially record-breaking heat wave struck the West Coast and baked schoolrooms from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024 Along with wooden benches and a replica stove, the schoolroom walls are lined with panels outlining its history, only one of which — a poster with the portraits of all 19 Republican presidents, ranging in chronology and ideology from Abraham Lincoln to Trump — appears overtly partisan. David Maraniss, Washington Post, 15 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for schoolroom 

Word History

First Known Use

1752, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of schoolroom was in 1752

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“Schoolroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schoolroom. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.

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schoolroom

noun
school·​room -ˌrüm How to pronounce schoolroom (audio)
-ˌru̇m

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