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# schoolroom

noun (a schoolroom, schoolrooms)

«schoolroom» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A room where children are taught, especially in an old school or a big house. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schoolroom/#m1)

### In the lessons

In older stories and history, rich families had a schoolroom at home where a governess taught the children; village schools had one schoolroom for all ages. Today we say «classroom». Alice thinks of her lessons and the schoolroom when she tries to say her tables.

### Examples

- The old schoolroom had a big black stove. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schoolroom/#x1)
- In Victorian times, all ages learned in one schoolroom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schoolroom/#x2)
- The governess taught the children in the schoolroom upstairs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schoolroom/#x3)
- We visited a Victorian schoolroom at the museum. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schoolroom/#x4)
- Slates and chalk lay on the schoolroom desks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schoolroom/#x5)
- The schoolroom smelled of ink and wood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schoolroom/#x6)

### Note

Plural: schoolrooms. Today the usual word is classroom.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «schoolroom» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/schoolroom/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«schoolroom» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/schoolroom.html) on Mova free.