schoolhouse

[skool-hous]

noun

plural

schoolhouses 

1. a building in which a school is conducted.

schoolhouse

/ ˈskuːlˌhaʊs /

noun

1. a building used as a school, esp a rural school

2. a house attached to a school

Word History and Origins

Origin of schoolhouse¹

First recorded in 1400–50, schoolhouse is from the late Middle English word scolehous. See school ¹, house

Example Sentences

A top-notch campus alone does not produce academic achievement — and, conversely, a brilliant teacher and an assiduous student in a one-room schoolhouse can make for an upstanding education.

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Athletic contests are a schoolhouse of democracy that inculcates the habits of civic engagement necessary for a free people to thrive.

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In Guatemala, the residents of México Nuevo — along with several hundred other people who had fled southern Chiapas in late July — were staying at a rural schoolhouse, or living with area families.

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Right, he didn't stand in the schoolhouse door.

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They later built a replica of the town’s schoolhouse, which doubled as a community center.

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