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

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.

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Mr. Lloyd’s earliest experiences playing for audiences included work with bluesmen such as Howlin’ Wolf, “in schoolhouses, with corn liquor, gambling and gunshots in the distance,” he told me.

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A picket fence is trim, as are the schoolhouse’s large windows.

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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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