classroom

[klas-room, -room, klahs-] / ˈklæsˌrum, -ˌrʊm, ˈklɑs- /

NOUN

room where learning takes place

Synonyms

STRONG

hall homeroom lecture room school room study hall

WEAK

auditorium lab library study theater workshop

Example Sentences

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In a boisterous, crowded classroom on a recent fall day, Christopher Jackson asked his 12th-graders at Da Vinci Communications who is wealthier: they or the 52-year-old teacher?

From The Wall Street Journal

She was never trained in the performing arts, "unless you'd call teaching in a classroom a kind of performance", she adds with a laugh.

From BBC

For Ms. Back, teaching literature was a performance, in which she stood before the classroom and marveled at “the glorious metaphor, the heartbreaking image, the joy-inspiring music of the poem.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Bat liked the main hallway better when all the other kids were in their classrooms.

From Literature

"I see you've forgotten my feeling about notes in the classroom."

From Literature