homeroom

or home room

[ hohm-room, -room ]

noun

1. a classroom in which pupils in the same grade or division of a grade meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher, who takes attendance and administers other school business.
2. (in an elementary school) the classroom in which pupils in the same grade or division of a grade receive instruction in all subjects except those requiring special facilities.
3. the pupils in a particular homeroom.

homeroom

/ -ˌrʊm; ˈhəʊmˌruːm /

noun

1. a room in a school used by a particular group of students as a base for registration, notices, etc
2. a group of students who use the same room as a base in school

Word History and Origins

Origin of homeroom¹

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15; home + room

Example Sentences

And she gave me an A+++, and then she said, "Get up in front of the homeroom and recite the story."

From Salon

But there is still a social cost to being in homeroom the morning after appearing on a late-night talk show.

From New York Times

On one hand, the reorganization is merely a quadrennial exercise in bureaucratic reshuffling, the grown-up equivalent of assigning new desks in a middle-school homeroom.

From Washington Post

From there, Radnor’s eighth to 12th graders viewed an explanatory PowerPoint in homeroom of the eight names and voted online for their top four.

From New York Times

In eighth grade, only seven students were in my homeroom—and one of them tried to stab me.

From Literature

Related Words

• course
• division
• grade
• room
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