schoolhouse
Americannoun
noun
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a building used as a school, esp a rural school
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a house attached to a school
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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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Lessons were taught in a small schoolhouse set on a bucolic campus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Kapisillit's red wooden schoolhouse has a bell, library and Soviet-era hunting rifle to fend off polar bears.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
Right, he didn't stand in the schoolhouse door.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2024
Because Rains lived nearby, he was asked to help defend the schoolhouse if there was ever a fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2024
We are also renovating their schoolhouse and setting up a little clinic.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
The school is representative of the schoolhouses for African-American children that sprang up in the rural South after the Civil War.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2023
One of my parents is an IU alum, but more than that, we were all born in Indiana, flat land of cornfields and quarries, churches and schoolhouses, often the punchline of other states' jokes.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2023
But he spent increasing amounts of time in Navy schoolhouses, talking about leadership and the lessons of his experience and forging relationships with hundreds of officers and enlisted sailors.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2022
“It sounds so corny, but almost immediately, it was no more gothic churches, no more electronic music. It was guitars and it was schoolhouses and ‘Little House on the Prairie.’”
From New York Times ● May 11, 2022
What passed for public school at the time was a haphazard assortment of locally run one-room schoolhouses and overcrowded urban classrooms scattered around the country.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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