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schoolhouse en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈskulˌhaʊs/ (General-American)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From Middle English scolehous, scole-hous, equivalent to school + house. Compare West Frisian skoallehûs, skoalhûs (“schoolhouse”), Dutch schoolhuis (“schoolhouse”), German Schulhaus (“schoolhouse”).

Meanings

  1. A building housing a school, especially a small or single-room one.
    • A historic schoolhouse burns in Shasta on July 26. 2018 August 13, “Massive wildfires scorching California”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 May 2026:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
schoolhouses Number=Plur lexicographic
school-house alternative, archaic lexicographic
scholehouse alternative, obsolete lexicographic

Hypernyms

house

Hyponyms

one-room schoolhouse

Translations (5)

mi wharekura (a school building) · fi koulutalo (a school building) · es plantel (a school building) · ru здание школы (a school building) · fi koulurakennus (a school building)