teacherage

[tee-cher-ij]

noun

1. a building serving as a combination school and living quarters, as on certain government reservations and in remote, sparsely settled areas.

Word History and Origins

Origin of teacherage¹

An Americanism dating back to 1930–35; teacher + -age

Example Sentences

For sale: The Alango School and Teacherage, built in 1927 on 10 acres near Angora, Minnesota.

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It is one of the town’s two “apartment houses,” the second being a ramshackle mansion known, because a good part of the local school’s faculty lives there, as the Teacherage.

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“Come on, then. We’ll drive down to the Teacherage. Susan ought to know what’s happened.”

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At the Teacherage, Wilma Kidwell was forced to control herself in order to control her daughter, for Susan, puffy-eyed, sickened by spasms of nausea, argued, inconsolably insisted, that she must go—must run—the three miles to the Rupp farm.

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Larry lingered at the edge of the Teacherage yard, hunched against a tree.

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