schoolroom

noun

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

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Every month, each household contributes 1,000 kwachas, or 58 cents, to provide a schoolroom for the youngest children. Erika Page, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2025 The colonel’s other collections included old schoolroom maps, books, a museum’s worth of vintage toys in what’s now the yoga studio, and old-fashioned canisters—açucar, feijão, arroz, all written in script—in the houses’ kitchens. Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025 The players used crayons and colored pencils while sitting a schoolroom desk to bring their artistic visions of themselves to cardboard. Brooks Peck, The Athletic, 13 July 2024 We were taken to their precinct and handcuffed to these little schoolroom desks. Susan Mulcahy, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for schoolroom

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First Known Use

1752, in the meaning defined above

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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 16 Apr. 2025.

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schoolroom

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

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