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teacherage

[ tee-cher-ij ]

noun

  1. a building serving as a combination school and living quarters, as on certain government reservations and in remote, sparsely settled areas.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of teacherage1

An Americanism dating back to 1930–35; teacher + -age
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Example Sentences

For sale: The Alango School and Teacherage, built in 1927 on 10 acres near Angora, Minnesota.

It is one of the town’s two “apartment houses,” the second being a ramshackle mansion known, because a good part of the local school’s faculty lives there, as the Teacherage.

“Come on, then. We’ll drive down to the Teacherage. Susan ought to know what’s happened.”

At the Teacherage, Wilma Kidwell was forced to control herself in order to control her daughter, for Susan, puffy-eyed, sickened by spasms of nausea, argued, inconsolably insisted, that she must go—must run—the three miles to the Rupp farm.

Larry lingered at the edge of the Teacherage yard, hunched against a tree.

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