classroom

[ klas-room, -roo m, klahs- ]

/ ˈklæsˌrum, -ˌrʊm, ˈklɑs- /

a room, as in a school or college, in which classes are held.

any place where one learns or gains experience: The sea is the sailor's classroom.

Origin of classroom

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70; class + room

This is a provocative subject that is ready-made for the classroom.

Dr. King Goes to Hollywood: The Flawed History of ‘Selma’ |Gary May |January 2, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
The killers went from classroom to classroom mowing down teachers and students alike.

Taliban: We Slaughtered 100+ Kids Because Their Parents Helped America |Sami Yousafzai |December 16, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
A classroom experiment seeks to demonstrate what it looks like.

What Is Privilege? |The Daily Beast Video |December 11, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Trailing only the economy, education and classroom issues dominated thinking among voters nationwide.

Why Voters Love Common Core |Harold Ford Jr. |November 28, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Child workers, even when they are brought back into the classroom, are unable to cope without proper bridge courses.

Stopping the Small Hands of Slavery |Meenakshi Ganguly |October 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Babs hurried off to the Fifth classroom, and arrived just in time for the geography lesson.

The Youngest Girl in the School |Evelyn Sharp
They went into the back of the classroom, and near the cubbies was a shelf with some large flat boxes and some smaller ones.

Baartock |Lewis Roth
More work is done in the classroom and on the ground to make the fighting pilot than in the air.

Aircraft and Submarines |Willis J. Abbot.
In the classroom the instructor is the "coach" of the game and she is the person with whom to talk.

A Girl's Student Days and After |Jeannette Marks
His scholarship was backed by thoroughness of application in the classroom.

Charles Edward Putney |Various

classroom

/ (ˈklɑːsˌruːm, -ˌrʊm) /

a room in which classes are conducted, esp in a school or college