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school-house

school-house is the archaic form of schoolhouse.

Meaning of schoolhouse

Noun

schoolhouse (plural schoolhouses)

  1. A building housing a school, especially a small or single-room one.
    • A historic schoolhouse burns in Shasta on July 26.2018 August 13, “Massive wildfires scorching California”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 May 2026

Forms of school-house

pluralschool-houses

Questions about school-house

What is school-house the archaic form of?
School-house is the archaic form of schoolhouse.

Words near school-house in the dictionary

  1. school-cap
  2. school-dinner ladies
  3. school-dinner lady
  4. school-goer
  5. school-goers
  6. school-house
  7. school-houses
  8. school-leaver
  9. school-leavers
  10. school-marm
  11. school-marms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: school-house (page history and authors); schoolhouse (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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