"school-house" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: school-houses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} school-house (plural school-houses)
  1. Archaic form of schoolhouse. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: schoolhouse
    Sense id: en-school-house-en-noun-gKzVBmdj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1848, Henry Barnard, School Architecture; or Contributions to the Improvement of School-houses in the United States, New York, N.Y.: […] A[lfred] S[mith] Barnes & Co.; Cincinnati, Oh.: H. W. Derby & Co., page 233",
          "text": "A committee was appointed to examine into the condition of the school-houses then occupied by the public schools, and report what alterations, improvements, and additional accommodations were required. This committee, after a full investigation, reported in favor of building new school-houses, on large and eligible sites, in different parts of the city.",
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          "ref": "1857, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 1, in The Life of Charlotte Brontë, volume I",
          "text": "The parsonage stands at right angles to the road, facing down upon the church; so that, in fact, parsonage, church, and belfried school-house, form three sides of an irregular oblong, of which the fourth is open to the fields and moors that lie beyond.",
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          "ref": "1870, Harriet Martineau, Deerbrook, page 263",
          "text": "But the calmest region is the upland, where human life is spread out beneath the bodily eye, where the mind roves from the peasant's nest to the spiry town, from the school-house to the churchyard, […]",
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          "ref": "1874 December 18, John M. Shirley, state reporter, “State v. Rollins”, in Reports of Cases in the Superior Court of Judicature of New Hampshire, volume LV, Concord, N.H.: Published by Josiah B. Sanborn, published 1876, →OCLC, page 102",
          "text": "The complaint charged that the defendants, on, etc., at, etc., \"in a certain public place, to wit, in a certain school-house in which a singing-school was then and there being held, did make a great brawl and tumult, and stamped their feet on the floor, hissed, used loud and saucy language, and were guilty of rude, indecent, and disorderly conduct.\"",
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          "ref": "1878, Virginia. General Assembly. Senate, Journal of the Senate of Virginia, page 31",
          "text": "On Tuesday morning before the homicide Aaron C. Shelton passed the school-house in which the school was then in session, hallooed school-butter, and passed on to his work without any disturbance […]",
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          "ref": "1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 6, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 87",
          "text": "“Been huntin’ fuh mah mule. Anybody seen ’im?” he asked.\n“Seen ’im soon dis mornin’ over behind de school-house,” Lum said. “’’Bout ten o’clock or so. He musta been out all night tuh be way over dere dat early.”",
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