schoolroom
pronunciation
How to pronounce schoolroom in British English:
UK [ˈsku:lru:m]
How to pronounce schoolroom in American English:
US [ˈskulˌrum, -ˌrʊm]
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- Noun:
- a room in a school where lessons take place
Word Origin
- schoolroom (n.)
- 1773, from school (n.1) + room (n.).
Example
- 1. Mr phillips heard the noise , and came slowly to the front of the schoolroom .
- 2. Who wouldn 't want to attend class in a schoolroom with a dang tree in it ?
- 3. The teacher , mr phillips , was helping some of the older children at the back of the schoolroom .
- 4. Beyond pity at seeing residents of a rich , proud country scavenging for food , hoarding bottled water and huddling for shelter on schoolroom floors , it was hard not to feel admiration as well .
- 5. The indiscriminate carnage in tucson looks more like the killings by a deranged student at virginia tech in 2007 , or the schoolroom atrocity at columbine in 1999 , than the assassinations of the kennedys or martin luther king .