Other forms: classrooms
A classroom is the room where a teacher and pupils have their lessons. At the back of the classroom, classroom management, a bright classroom.
Its shape has barely changed in a century — rows facing forward — despite everything known about how people learn, largely because it is the cheapest way to fit thirty children in a room. Classroom management is the largest single factor in whether teaching works. Note that the compound is class plus room.
1nounclassroomThe room where a teacher and pupils have lessons.
“The children ran back to the classroom when the bell rang.”
classroom is a room.
Class plus room. Class comes from Latin classis, a division of the Roman people.
From class + room. From class + room.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA