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SCHOOLROOM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A room in a school where lessons take place
Synonyms:
classroom; schoolroom
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("schoolroom" is a kind of...):
room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "schoolroom"):
home room; homeroom (a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business)
lecture room (classroom where lectures are given)
study hall (a classroom reserved for study)
Holonyms ("schoolroom" is a part of...):
school; schoolhouse (a building where young people receive education)
Context examples:
A profound impression was made upon me, I remember, by the roar of voices in the schoolroom suddenly becoming hushed as death when Mr. Creakle entered after breakfast, and stood in the doorway looking round upon us like a giant in a story-book surveying his captives.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I found Adele peeping through the schoolroom door, which she held ajar.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When she had finished, and we were going out to the schoolroom, I was much surprised to hear Mr. Wickfield, in bidding her good morning, address her as Mrs. Strong; and I was wondering could she be Doctor Strong's son's wife, or could she be Mrs. Doctor Strong, when Doctor Strong himself unconsciously enlightened me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"Well, Jane?" he said, as he rested his back against the schoolroom door, which he had shut.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I was not mistaken; for the mop came into the schoolroom before long, and turned out Mr. Mell and me, who lived where we could, and got on how we could, for some days, during which we were always in the way of two or three young women, who had rarely shown themselves before, and were so continually in the midst of dust that I sneezed almost as much as if Salem House had been a great snuff-box.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A clock in the schoolroom struck nine; Miss Miller left her circle, and standing in the middle of the room, cried—Silence! To your seats!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
All day long, and until seven or eight in the evening, Mr. Mell, at his own detached desk in the schoolroom, worked hard with pen, ink, ruler, books, and writing-paper, making out the bills (as I found) for last half-year.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I was now in the schoolroom; Adele was drawing; I bent over her and directed her pencil.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The schoolroom was a pretty large hall, on the quietest side of the house, confronted by the stately stare of some half-dozen of the great urns, and commanding a peep of an old secluded garden belonging to the Doctor, where the peaches were ripening on the sunny south wall.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The remedy was, to thrust them forward into the centre of the schoolroom, and oblige them to stand there till the sermon was finished.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
