homeroom
Americannoun
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homerooms
plural
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a classroom in which pupils in the same grade or division of a grade meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher, who takes attendance and administers other school business.
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(in an elementary school) the classroom in which pupils in the same grade or division of a grade receive instruction in all subjects except those requiring special facilities.
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the pupils in a particular homeroom.
noun
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a room in a school used by a particular group of students as a base for registration, notices, etc
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a group of students who use the same room as a base in school
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"In late December, we received a message from my daughter's homeroom teacher telling us that WhatsApp no longer worked at all," said one Muscovite, who refused to give her name.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
One morning in my homeroom, the teacher asked what a harvest moon was.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The boy was a model student, said Chau, who taught him U.S. history and also was his homeroom teacher.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
Between two to four weeks after she disappeared from Zoom school, her homeroom advisor and Spanish teacher each wrote to her, asking where she was.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 9, 2023
She never reads what we write; there are no grades in homeroom, just attendance and participation points.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
As the girls filtered into their homerooms, teachers had the unenviable task of enforcing the virus’ heartless mandate: no hugs or touching friends whom the students hadn’t seen in months.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2020
So, too, can distant geography wreak havoc on her morning routine of getting three students to three homerooms miles apart.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2019
Judge Robert G. James approved the order that stated the principals of each school would assign students to their homerooms.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 4, 2015
At the same time that it added engineering and biomedical sciences, the school reorganized into old-fashioned homerooms that brought each student into daily contact with the same teacher from ninth through 12th grade.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 15, 2014
Boy21 is in my homeroom even though homerooms are arranged alphabetically and all the other M and W names are not grouped together.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
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