单词 | homeroom |
释义 | homeroomn. North American. 1. A living room. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > living room living room1787 homeroom1841 sala1851 living space1882 living area1898 1841 Universalist & Ladies' Repository July 76/2 Is it not a little Paradise, this home-room with its books and flowers, and its sweet holy solitude? 1863 D. G. Mitchell My Farm of Edgewood ii. 92 The memory of a cheery, sunlit home-room, with its pictures on the wall, and its flame upon the hearth, shall haunt the voyager's thought. 1889 Vick's Monthly Mag. Oct. 316 Their dining and home rooms are not daily ornamented with flowers. 1921 W. Nutting Furnit. of Pilgrim Cent. 521 (caption) A large home room furnished as of the date 1700 or thereabout. 2. A classroom for pupils of the same grade, spec. one in which such pupils assemble with a teacher before dispersing for classes; the period during which this occurs. Frequently attributive, as homeroom teacher, etc. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > school > schoolroom > types of study placec1667 study hall1813 shop1871 homeroom1884 open classroom1969 1884 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 7 July 8/4 Each class has its own teacher and its home room. 1915 Ann. Rep. Comm. Educ. 1914 (U.S. Office of Educ.) I. iii. 45 The regular or home-room teacher feels a definite responsibility for the class wherever it may be. 1930 School Rev. Apr. 300 The home room is the unit of organization of the school and is the center of the pupil's school activities. 1968 ‘J. R. Macdonald’ Instant Enemy i. 8 I got in touch with her homeroom teacher and found she'd been playing hookey all day. 1996 S. Fordham Blacked Out 368 Art is sometimes late for his first period class, but most often he just misses the fifteen-minute homeroom period. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1841 |
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