schoolhouse
Americannoun
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schoolhouses
plural
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
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Etymology
Origin of schoolhouse
First recorded in 1400–50, schoolhouse is from the late Middle English word scolehous. See school 1, house
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I grew up in eastern Kentucky and attended grade school in a four-room schoolhouse without indoor plumbing that had a potbelly stove for heat in the winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Lessons were taught in a small schoolhouse set on a bucolic campus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Then there was his promise to build her a dance studio on their massive estate; he turned it into a schoolhouse for their growing brood of children.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 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
The schoolhouse lay south of the rows of girls’ dormitories.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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
In Lauck’s telling, the region became a hotbed of intellectualism: Carnegie libraries flourished, local philosophical and literary societies emerged, schoolhouses were built, land-grant universities were founded.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2022
But millions of Americans gave voting a go anyway on Tuesday, dutifully turning up across the country to cast ballots at schoolhouses, libraries and V.F.W. posts.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
Teachers were called upon to do whatever was necessary to keep the schoolhouses clean, safe, and comfortable for pupils.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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