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schoolhouse

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: School, Buildings
school·house /ˈskuːlhaʊs/ noun [countable]  SESTBBa school building, especially for a small village school 〔尤指乡村学校的〕校舍
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schoolhouseThe men had sent their families to the relative security of a schoolhouse a mile down the road.It is simple: a schoolhouse desk and bench, pierced by a pole wrapped tightly with a flame-licked flag.a one-room schoolhouseNo wonder she had never got further than teaching in a one-roomed schoolhouse.Sometimes it is a stone schoolhouse with tall windows.Gibson, the Family Tree co-founder, says the program works because its lessons go beyond the schoolhouse.He joined the resistance and hid in the schoolhouse in the village of Glabbeeck.Other children, destined for the afternoon session in the schoolhouse, are already at work.The schoolhouse lay some distance off along the curving bay.
school·house nounChineseSyllable
village small a for school school a Corpus building, especially


schoolhouse
schoolhouse /ˈskuːlhaʊs/ noun [countable]
a school building, especially for a small village school


school·houseBrE /ˈskuːlhaʊs/ 🔊NAmE /ˈskuːlhaʊs/ 🔊 nouna school building, especially a small one in a village in the past (尤指旧时乡村学校的)校舍a house for a teacher next to a small school (小型学校旁边的)教师住房