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Meaning of "staffroom" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF STAFFROOM

staffroom  [ˈstɑːfruːm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STAFFROOM

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Staffroom is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES STAFFROOM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Staff room

A staff room, also known as a teachers' lounge outside Great Britain is a room in a primary school, middle school, high school, college where teachers have their desk and prepare their lessons as opposed to the faculty lounge in United States and Canadian universities and to the common room in British independent schools, where the teachers and/or school staff talk to each other, discuss work, eat, drink and socialise while not in class. In primary school there is usually just one common room, while in middle school, high school, college and/or university, there can be multiple common rooms. Faculty lounges and common rooms may have kitchens, desks, and television sets. The term is not used to refer to a general kitchen area, for example in an office.

Definition of staffroom in the English dictionary

The definition of staffroom in the dictionary is a room used by staff or workers, esp by teachers in a school, to eat, relax, etc, between classes.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STAFFROOM


ballroom
ˈbɔːlˌruːm
bathroom
ˈbɑːθˌruːm
bedroom
ˈbɛdˌruːm
boardroom
ˈbɔːdˌruːm
broom
bruːm
chatroom
ˈtʃætˌruːm
classroom
ˈklɑːsˌruːm
courtroom
ˈkɔːtˌruːm
darkroom
ˈdɑːkˌruːm
groom
ɡruːm
homeroom
ˈhəʊmˌruːm
mushroom
ˈmʌʃruːm
newsroom
ˈnjuːzˌruːm
playroom
ˈpleɪˌruːm
pressroom
ˈprɛsˌruːm
room
ruːm
showroom
ˈʃəʊˌruːm
sunroom
ˈsʌnˌruːm
vroom
vruːm
washroom
ˈwɒʃˌruːm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STAFFROOM

staff nurse
staff of Aesculapius
staff officer
staff sergeant
staff training
staff-student ratio
Staffa
staffage
staffed
staffer
staffing
staffing officer
staffing ratio
staffman
staffmen
Stafford
Staffordshire
Staffordshire bull terrier
staffrider

WORDS THAT END LIKE STAFFROOM

backroom
chat room
dining room
double room
dressing room
elephant in the room
emergency room
family room
guest room
hotel room
living room
locker room
locker-room
master bedroom
powder room
press room
shelfroom
shower room
tea room
utility room

Synonyms and antonyms of staffroom in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «staffroom» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STAFFROOM

Find out the translation of staffroom to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of staffroom from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «staffroom» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

职员休息室
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sala de personal
570 millions of speakers

English

staffroom
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

staffroom
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

غُرْفَةُ العَامِلِيـن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

комната персонала
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sala dos funcionários
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কর্মচারী কক্ষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

salle du personnel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

bilik staf
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lehrerzimmer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

職員室
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

직원실
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ruang tamu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phòng nhân viên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பணியாளர் அறை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कर्मचारी कक्ष
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

personel odası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sala professori
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pokój dla personelu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

службове приміщення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cameră pentru angajați
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δωμάτιο προσωπικού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

personeelkamer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

personalrum
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

personalrom
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of staffroom

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STAFFROOM»

The term «staffroom» is regularly used and occupies the 76.795 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STAFFROOM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «staffroom» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «staffroom» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about staffroom

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STAFFROOM»

Discover the use of staffroom in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to staffroom and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Behind the Staffroom Door: The Very Best Of-
This work contains Brian Moses` greatest hits!
Brian Moses, 2007
2
The staffroom: observing the professional culture of teachers
The significance of the teachers' presentation of themselves to their colleagues, which the author has termed the Professional Culture of Teachers, is the main subject of the book.The Staffroom can help teachers, educators, universities and ...
Anat Kainan, 1994
3
What Teachers Say in the Staffroom
The purpose of this study was to analyze what teachers talk about in the staffroom.
Jonathan William Pitt, 2007
4
Inside the Secondary Classroom (RLE Edu O)
Gryll Grange was a purposebuilt middle school, and the staffroom was openplan. It was up a short flight ofstairs above theschool library, withno door, andonlya waist highwall.Anyone standing atthe end ofthe staffroom nearest the stairs ...
Sara Delamont, Maurice Galton, 2014
5
The Naked Teacher: How to Survive Your First Five Years in ...
Part. Six. In. the. Staffroom. Staffrooms are the nucleus of school life, a place where you can hide from the students and find adult company, a space to concentrate quietly or take the weight off your feet and relax for a while. In larger schools it ...
Louisa Leaman, 2006
6
Teaching In Lifelong Learning: A Guide To Theory And ...
The staffroom Although teachers spend a great deal of time in classrooms, the staffroom is another important space in their professional lives. The staffroom is typically a place where teachers have a physical base and are likely to spend ...
Avis, James, Fisher, Roy, Thompson, Ron, 2009
7
Teachers, Gender and Careers
Gender Joking in the Staffroom Sheila Citnnison Introduetion This chapter draws on data collected during three months' observation among the staff of a mixed- sex senior comprehensive school. The data are interpreted in the light of ...
Sandra Acker, 1989
8
PGCE Survival Guide Incorporating #pgcetips
Be aware of who's in the staffroom. Teachers often talk about their class and problems they are having with them in the staffroom ‐ but before you say anything make sure it's appropri‐ate and you know who is around ‐ the last thing you want is ...
Tim Handley, 2010
9
The Newly Qualified Teacher's Handbook
STAFFROOM POLITICS AND ETIQUETTE The best teachers are positive teachers. (Robert Grice) Is the staffroom a place of peaceful sanctuary or of frightening fiends waiting to devour the fresh NQT? Whatever the presumptions about ...
Elizabeth Holmes, 2013
10
Inspirational – and Cautionary – Tales for Would-be School ...
Every school has a staffroom, or something that does the same job. The state of it, whether it's heavily used or not, the facilities in there, can tell you a lot about the health ofa school and, particularly, about what the leadership's attitude is to the ...
Gerald Haigh, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STAFFROOM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term staffroom is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Staff Room column - All human life is there ...
These are the Victor Meldrews of the staffroom. There are the characters that can 'hold forth' on virtually anything or everything – the clever, the thoughtful and ... «Wakefield Express, Mar 15»
2
Primary school teacher aides exchanged drugs in staffroom
An Auckland primary school has suspended two teacher aides after they were snapped exchanging cannabis in the staff room. But the school says the pair will ... «New Zealand Herald, Mar 15»
3
Staffroom design: an underrated art
There you are, working your socks off for your employer and looking forward to your break in a pleasant staffroom environment. However, when you head off for ... «Talk Business Magazine, Feb 15»
4
Cog Notes: Bullying in the staffroom
Awareness of bullying among students has risen considerably in recent years, but what about bullying among staff? UCD lecturer Declan Fahie has been ... «Irish Times, Feb 15»
5
How to make perfect festive treats for your staffroom
Be the envy of the staffroom with these fabulously festive recipes. ... that will put shop-bought treats to shame and impress your colleagues in the staffroom. «The Guardian, Dec 14»
6
Teaching in Japan, where students bow at the staffroom door
I moved to Japan in 2011, initially for one year, to teach English as an assistant language teacher on the Japan Exchange and Teaching (Jet) programme. «Irish Times, Nov 14»
7
Staff room can be a very lonely place for many of our teachers
Many teachers who have depression manage successfully to do their work well, yet dread going to the staffroom. They may think that colleagues will recognise ... «Irish Independent, Sep 14»
8
Girls' school chief: we need diversity in the staffroom as well as the …
Today, it was reported that a girls' state school in Bradford has been criticised by Ofsted for only employing female teachers. Feversham College, a Muslim ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 14»
9
Special Measures review – A comic indictment of staffroom pressures
Former teacher Mark Davies Markham realised the time had come to get out of education when a student threatened him with a bread knife. His wife still works ... «The Guardian, Apr 14»
10
Wilshaw warns staffroom 'moaners'
Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw says that teachers should stop presenting themselves as "victims". The head of the education watchdog warned it undermined ... «BBC News, Jan 14»

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