schoolhouse
English
Etymology
From Middle English scolehous, scole-hous, equivalent to school + house. Compare West Frisian skoallehûs,skoalhûs (“schoolhouse”), Dutch schoolhuis (“schoolhouse”), German Schulhaus (“schoolhouse”).
Noun
schoolhouse (plural schoolhouses)
- A building housing a school, especially a small or single-room one.
Hypernyms
- house
Hyponyms
- one-room schoolhouse
Translations
a school building
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