: a classroom where pupils report especially at the beginning of each school day
Example Sentences
They were assigned to different homerooms. He was late for homeroom.
Recent Examples on the WebGittins was in his homeroom, down the hall from the cafeteria, when the gunfire erupted. Brenda Cain, cleveland, 3 June 2022 Nibert and other Huntington students staged a walkout during their homeroom period Wednesday to protest the assembly.CBS News, 10 Feb. 2022 Brittany McNabb taught Rowley’s eighth-grade homeroom class. Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2022 Barbara Mundy, an art historian who attended Lowell High School with Egan, recalls the day a new girl from Presidio Heights walked into her homeroom their sophomore year. Lauren Mechling, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2022 Allows high school teachers to adjust their schedule time for intervention or homeroom support up to two days per week. Rafael Guerrero, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2021 Students involved in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, a nonprofit Christian sports ministry, conducted the assembly during a noninstructional homeroom period at Huntington High School in Huntington on February 2. Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 14 Feb. 2022 Nibert and other Huntington students staged a walkout during their homeroom period Wednesday to protest the assembly.CBS News, 10 Feb. 2022 Nibert and other Huntington students staged a walkout during their homeroom period Wednesday to protest the assembly.NBC News, 9 Feb. 2022 See More
Word History
First Known Use
1884, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
homeroom
noun
home·room ˈhōm-ˌrüm
-ˌru̇m
: a classroom where students of the same class report at the start of each day