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classroom

Syllables: class·room/ˈklɑːsɹʊm/

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Northern England/ˈklæsruːm/

classroom noun: a room, often in a school, where classes take place.

classroom: a room, often in a school, where classes take place
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Noun

classroom (plural classrooms)

  1. A room, often in a school, where classes take place.
    • Secondly, preserved railways are not 24/7 operations. There are closed seasons where they can be turned into open-air classrooms.2024 April 3, Richard Foster, “Training the next generation of engineers”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 48

classroom meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

classroom in Hindi

room in a school
कक्षा kakṣā, अध्ययनकक्ष adhyayankakṣ

classroom in Tamil

வகுப்பறை

classroom in Marathi

room in a school
वर्ग varga, वर्गखोली vargakholī

classroom in Urdu

room in a school
کَمْرَۂ جَماعَت kamra-yi jamā'at, کِلاس رُوم kilās rūm
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classroom in Bengali
শ্রেণিকক্ষ srenikokkho, ক্লাসরুম klaśorum
classroom in Telugu
తరగతిగది taragatigadi
classroom in Tagalog
silid-aralan, klasrum
classroom in Arabic
صَفّ ṣaff, غُرْفَة التَّدْرِيس ḡurfat at-tadrīs, فَصْل faṣl, فَصْل مَدْرَسِيّ faṣl madrasiyy
classroom in Malay
bilik darjah
classroom in Indonesian
ruang kelas
classroom in Thai
ห้องเรียน hɔ̂ng-riian
classroom in Vietnamese
lớp học, phòng học, lớp
classroom in Myanmar
စာသင်ခန်း casanghkan:
Dhivehi
ކުލާސްރޫމް kulāsrūm̊

Examples of classroom in a sentence

  • We went everywhere at the school - we talked to all the teachers in their classrooms.
  • The biology teacher passed a large plastic model of the atomic structure of DNA around the classroom.
  • There was a pencil sharpener at the front of the classroom.

All 40 example sentences with classroom

Forms of classroom

pluralclassrooms

Plural of classroom: classrooms

Origin of classroom

From class + room.

Words formed from classroom

Questions about classroom

What does classroom mean?
Classroom means a room, often in a school, where classes take place.
What is classroom in Hindi?
Classroom in Hindi is कक्षा (kakṣā), अध्ययनकक्ष (adhyayankakṣ). See Classroom meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is classroom?
Classroom is a noun.
How do you pronounce classroom?
Classroom is pronounced /ˈklɑːsɹʊm/ (UK).
What is the plural of classroom?
The plural of classroom is classrooms.

Words near classroom in the dictionary

  1. classmates
  2. classmen
  3. classness
  4. classpath
  5. classpaths
  6. classroom
  7. classroomese
  8. classroomful
  9. classroomfuls
  10. classroomless
  11. classroomlike

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: classroom (page history and authors); classroom (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ক্লাসরুম (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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