noun
Usage
What does classroom mean? A classroom is traditionally a room in a school where a class is taught. The word classroom is commonly used to refer to such a room at every level of education, including elementary school, high school, and college. It can also be used in a more general way to refer to any space where students are being taught by a teacher. Some classrooms might not even be in a room—some schools have outdoor classrooms where students are taught outside, for example. The word is sometimes used in a figurative way to refer to the primary place where someone learns and gains experience outside of a formal educational setting, as in My grandfather didn’t have much formal schooling—the farm was his classroom. Example: I try to set up my classroom to be a space that allows each student to learn in their own way.
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Three months after the tearful student opened a Roth IRA in Jackson’s classroom, the teacher was approached again by someone who was crying at the school’s commencement ceremony.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Drury said what happened in the classroom was "unimaginable".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The children who attended TK already know how to sit on the classroom rug, listen to a lesson and move between activities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Executive education programs are flourishing as business leaders confront an AI landscape they couldn’t have imagined when they were last in a classroom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
One morning, Iwas in the hall near the classroom door when I overheard her telling one of the parents that Jessica and her family had been living in town for a week or two already.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
In classrooms like Jackson’s, it’s evolved into a frontline defense against predatory debt and generational wealth gaps.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
For Bernardeau, who is Spanish, the film offered him a chance to study his own country's history without the "bias" found in classrooms.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
His sentences are quoted in classrooms, cited in essays and preserved in a presidential library.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
The latest challenge has been managing the big move from the old mishmash of 1960s-built classrooms to the vast new building.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
The kids run off to their classrooms, and I start making my way to my locker.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
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