schoolhouse
Americannoun
plural
schoolhousesnoun
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a building used as a school, esp a rural school
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a house attached to a school
Etymology
Origin of schoolhouse
First recorded in 1400–50, schoolhouse is from the late Middle English word scolehous. See school 1, house
Example Sentences
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And I don’t mean to sound boastful, but I won the penmanship contest at my schoolhouse here in Saint Catharines.
From Literature
About one hundred feet up that path sat the Mary McLeod Bethune Grade School, the white wooden two-room schoolhouse where our town’s Colored children were educated.
From Literature
A picket fence is trim, as are the schoolhouse’s large windows.
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.
From Los Angeles Times
Athletic contests are a schoolhouse of democracy that inculcates the habits of civic engagement necessary for a free people to thrive.
From Los Angeles Times
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