School-house
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: School-house is a noun meaning Archaic form of schoolhouse.
Meaning
Archaic form of schoolhouse.
Example Sentences
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 […]
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, […]
“Been huntin’ fuh mah mule. Anybody seen ’im?” he asked. “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.”
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.
Word Forms
- school-houses
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