schoolhouse

See also: school-house

English

Alternative forms

• scholehouse (obsolete)
• school-house (archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈskulˌhaʊs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

schoolhouse (plural schoolhouses)

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

     A historic schoolhouse burns in Shasta on July 26.

Hypernyms

• house

Hyponyms

• one-room schoolhouse

Translations

a school building

• Finnish: koulurakennus (fi), koulutalo (fi)
• Māori: wharekura
• Russian: здание школы m (zdanije školy)
• Spanish: plantel (es) m