teacherage

American  

[tee-cher-ij] / ˈti tʃər ɪdʒ /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of teacherage

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.

From Washington Times

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

From Literature

The Teacherage, which stands opposite the up-to-date school, is an out-of-date edifice, drab and poignant.

From Literature

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.

From Literature

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.

From Literature