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Definition of homework noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
- acquire/get/lack experience/training/(an) education
- receive/provide somebody with training
- develop/design/plan a curriculum/course/program/syllabus
- give/go to/attend a class/lesson/lecture/seminar
- hold/run/conduct a class/seminar/workshop
- moderate/lead/facilitate a discussion
- sign up for/take a course/classes/lessons
- go to/start preschool/kindergarten/nursery school
- be in the first, second, etc. grade (at school)
- study/take/drop history/chemistry/German, etc.
- finish/drop out of/quit school
- graduate from high school/college
- be the victim/target of bullying/teasing
- skip/cut/ ( informal ) ditch class/school
- cheat on an exam/a test
- get/be given a detention (for doing something)
- be expelled from/be suspended from school
- do your homework/a project on something
- work on/write/do/submit an essay/a dissertation/a thesis/an assignment/a paper
- finish/complete your dissertation/thesis/studies
- hand in/turn in your homework/essay/assignment/paper
- study/prepare/review/ ( informal ) cram for a test/an exam
- take/ ( formal ) sit for a test/an exam
- grade homework/a test
- do well on/ ( informal ) ace a test/an exam
- pass/fail/ ( informal ) flunk a test/an exam/a class/a course/a subject
- apply to/get into/go to/start college
- leave/graduate from college (with a degree in computer science)/law school
- study for/work towards a law degree/a degree in physics
- major/minor in biology/philosophy
- earn/receive/be awarded/get/have/hold a master's degree/a bachelor's degree/a Ph.D. in economics
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What does the noun homework mean?
There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun homework . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
How common is the noun homework ?
| 1750 | 0.0054 |
| 1760 | 0.0036 |
| 1770 | 0.0017 |
| 1780 | 0 |
| 1790 | 0.0002 |
| 1800 | 0.0015 |
| 1810 | 0.0016 |
| 1820 | 0.0016 |
| 1830 | 0.0005 |
| 1840 | 0.0017 |
| 1850 | 0.0024 |
| 1860 | 0.0048 |
| 1870 | 0.0053 |
| 1880 | 0.0079 |
| 1890 | 0.02 |
| 1900 | 0.052 |
| 1910 | 0.098 |
| 1920 | 0.29 |
| 1930 | 0.53 |
| 1940 | 0.91 |
| 1950 | 1.3 |
| 1960 | 1.7 |
| 1970 | 2.6 |
| 1980 | 3.8 |
| 1990 | 5.3 |
| 2000 | 6.2 |
| 2010 | 6.6 |
How is the noun homework pronounced?
British english, u.s. english, where does the noun homework come from.
Earliest known use
The earliest known use of the noun homework is in the mid 1600s.
OED's earliest evidence for homework is from 1653, in the writing of Edmund Chillenden, parliamentarian army officer and General Baptist leader.
homework is formed within English, by compounding.
Etymons: home n. 1 , work n.
Nearby entries
- homeward-bounder, n. 1837–
- homeward-bound pennant, n. 1853–
- homewardly, adv. 1797–
- homewards, adv. & adj. Old English–
- homeware, n. 1782–
- home waters, n. 1838–
- home wear, n. 1836–
- home-whining, n. a1657
- home wind, n. 1732–
- home-woe, n. 1838–
- homework, n. 1653–
- homework club, n. 1900–
- homework diary, n. 1973–
- homeworker, n. 1843–
- homeworking, n. 1844–
- home-working, adj. 1850–
- home worship, n. 1849–
- homewort, n. Old English–
- home-wreck, n. 1845–
- home-wrecker, n. 1878–
- home-wrecking, n. 1878–
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homework, n. was revised in September 2011.
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Other forms: homeworks
Any assignment you're expected to complete after school and bring back to class the next day is called homework . Many students make up excuses for not having their homework done. The "My dog ate my homework " excuse doesn't work so well in the digital age.
High school students typically have a lot of homework most days, and often that's true for younger students as well. In college, an increasing amount of school work is done outside of class, as homework (even if you do it in the library, a cafe, or a dorm). Homework originally referred to any work done at home, including cooking and cleaning. The first example of the "school work" meaning dates from the late 1880s.
- noun preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) synonyms: prep , preparation see more see less type of: school assignment , schoolwork a school task performed by a student to satisfy the teacher
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Why are "homework" and "work" uncountable in English? [closed]
In Bulgarian both "homework" and "work" are countable. Why are they uncountable in English then? What is the difference in meaning that makes that happen?
- uncountable-nouns
- 'Why'?' is a difficult question. Sometimes things just are . – Mitch Commented Jan 17, 2012 at 14:30
Both are considered mass nouns , just like milk , air , etc.
However, work can also refer to a singular piece of creation (art, literature, plays, etc.), in which case it can be pluralized:
These are all the works of Shakespeare.
If you want to refer to a specific part of your work , you could use task :
I completed twelve tasks . I got a lot of work done today.
Likewise, if you want to refer to a single, discrete unit of homework , use assignment :
Our teacher gave us three assignments to complete by Friday.
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What's the correct unit for homework?
Consider the case when a teacher has thirty students in the class. The noun "homework" is uncountable so he cannot say "I have thirty homeworks to grade every week." My question is that if there is any unit of homework so that the sentence "I have thirty (units) of homework to grade every week" can be valid?
- After reading the replies, I think I should make the situation more clear. I myself am a math TA. What our students need to do for homework is usually about ten exercises from the textbook. I feel if I ask another TA how much homework he needs to grade, the usual reply will be like, "I have two sections, fifteen students each, and we have one assignment every week." Since the amount of exercises is usually the same, we don't really care about it. The amount of homework to grade mainly depends on how many students we have. But I always feel this kind of reply to be very indirect. So my precisely question is if there is any way to reply the question "how much homework do you need to grade?" by saying "I need to grade thirty (units) homework every week."
- Based on what I see from the replies, I have the impression that different countries have different answers for this question. Is this true? I'm on the west coast of the US so the way in which people there answer this question is what I care about the most. But I'm still interested in knowing the difference.
- uncountable-nouns
- 7 But, Chris, you'd need to tell us what unit is important. What did you count to reach thirty? Was it questions, exercises, assignments, workbooks? Was it students or classes? Until you tell us, we don't know. – Gary Botnovcan Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 15:21
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In your example, you could use pieces , as in I have thirty pieces of homework to grade every week .
piece noun [ C ] (THING) a single object of a particular type: a piece of furniture/clothing/equipment a piece of paper (= a whole sheet) a piece of china (= an object made of china) a piece of information/advice (Cambridge Dictionary)
However, that doesn't seem particularly idiomatic to me. You could use assignments , as in homework assignments :
assignment noun [ C/U ] us /əˈsɑɪn·mənt/ a particular job or responsibility given to you: [C] The homework assignment was to read Chapter 2 in our history book. (Cambridge Dictionary)
However, in my experience, it's more common to use the type of assignment instead of homework . I think the most broad term is assignment , but you could be more specific: I have 30 ______ to grade every week.
- assignments
I was very briefly a grader (or, "reader") in a related field. I can't remember exactly how I talked about it, but if someone asked me, "How much homework do you need to grade?", I would probably reply
I need to grade thirty [assignments] every week.
You could also say sets (as others have mentioned), or even submissions (more generic). I'm thinking maybe even "papers", but that's usually used with reports or essay-like works.
I don't think I would have responded in the form you supplied, "I need to grade thirty (units) homework every week." But, that's just my personal feeling of it. You can still use pieces , as mentioned earlier. It may or may not sound slightly strange to the listener, but you will be understood.
To my surprise, BrE users are reporting that pieces of homework is idiomatic to them. I did a little Ngram search , and it appears that the phrase is more common in BrE.
I'm from the West Coast (US).
- 2 I always preferred "piece of homework", so +1 – SovereignSun Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 9:19
- 4 Pieces was the first word I thought of. (brit here) – WendyG Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 10:56
- 2 I've often heard " homework for 30 students ", or " papers ", as in " I have 30 papers to grade this weekend ". – Todd Wilcox Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 13:58
- 8 "Assignment" strikes me as more likely American. I don't think we ever referred to pieces of homework as "assignments" in secondary school here in Britain. Maybe my school was just weird though, it's hard to tell with this sort of thing! – Muzer Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 14:27
- 2 Pieces of homework sounds perfectly idiomatic to me (from UK) – Ben Commented Aug 10, 2018 at 13:08
You are given homework assignments :
[Merriam-Webster] 2 b : a specified task or amount of work assigned or undertaken as if assigned by authority • a homework assignment The students were given a homework assignment .
- @Richard The way I see it, this definition is not so precise and clear too! What about: "a piece of work that a student is asked to do" (Quoted from here , definition number 2) – a.RR Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 14:14
- 5 If the teacher were marking 30 assignments, I'd see that as 30 sets of different homework, not 30 submissions for the same assignment. – Lightness Races in Orbit Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 15:16
- Agreed; one assignment to 30 students would produce (up to) 30 submissions to grade. – chepner Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 18:19
- In Toronto, especially in high school, we always got homework assignments. They weren't called anything else. – Jason Bassford Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 20:30
- 1 Hmm everyone I knew when I TA'd in the US would more than happily use "homeworks". Not sure if they would write since I've never had occasion to need that but in casual speech it seems completely acceptable. I wonder how many would have actually reported it as ungrammatical. – DRF Commented Aug 10, 2018 at 13:45
You pick a different noun that is more flexible yet appropriate.
I have thirty reports to grade. I have thirty assignments to mark.
- 2 Also problem sets or essays. – user3067860 Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 13:29
You're asking about the teacher's workload in evaluating the homework that has been returned.
I think the word 'sets' is what you're looking for.
I have 30 sets of math homework to grade, and I still have 8 sets of geography homework from yesterday that I'm not done with.
set (MW, noun definition 2)
a number of things of the same kind that belong or are used together
The dictionaries don't seem to have caught up yet but, as somebody who regularly sets and marks homework in a university in the UK, I would quite happily refer to "marking 30 homeworks". A comment on another answer says that this is also used in the US.
So, at least for informal use, I think it's fine to use homework as a countable noun and pluralize it. If you wanted to be more formal, I'd go with my usual cowardly solution of rewording to avoid the problem: "I have to grade 30 students' homework" or "I have to grade homework for 30 students."
- 1 I agree, but interestingly, if I were a student and had a math assignment, a history assignment, and an English assignment, I'd never say "I have three homeworks to do." – thumbtackthief Commented Aug 10, 2018 at 21:21
I suggest you use the word exercise . It's one of the most frequently used words in this meaning(=homework) & it's countable too.
Well, there are other simple ways:
For homework , you're going to finish thirty exercises every week.
In other words:
Do Exercises 3, 4, 5 etc on pages 51, 52, 53 etc for homework .
If you are student you can say:
My science teacher always sets a lot of homework. The teacher told us to do thirty exercises for homework.
If you are teacher you can also say:
For homework I want you to do thirty exercises.
- 1 But if you set thirty exercises as homework then one 'unit' of homework would be thirty exercises, so 'exercise' isn't the unit for 'the homework received from one pupil'. – Pete Kirkham Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 15:01
- @PeteKirkham All in all, " One exercise " can be a " Piece of homework " or " A part of assignment " . So I definitely disagree with you. – a.RR Commented Aug 9, 2018 at 15:43
- 2 Probably an American thing, but "my teacher sets a lot of homework" sounds very weird to me. I would always use the verb "gives." I also agree with @PeteKirkham; to me, "exercise" only refers to a part of an assignment and not the assignment as a whole. – Doorknob Commented Aug 10, 2018 at 14:35
- @Doorknob "Set" seems very normal to me in British English so, yes, this probably is a US/UK thing. – David Richerby Commented Aug 10, 2018 at 16:07
- This is incorrect. If the teacher has set 30 exercises to each of 30 students, then they have 900 exercises to mark but only 30 units of homework. "Exercise" and "homework" are not synonyms: one's homework is the total work one has been set to do at home and that may consist of multiple exercises, as your answer makes clear. – David Richerby Commented Aug 10, 2018 at 16:09
I'd quantify it by the amount of students whose homework you have to grade.
"I have homework of 30 students to grade this weekend"
- 2 Or, more simply, "30 students' homework". With your phrasing, I think you need the definite article, "I have the homework of 30 students to grade this weekend." – David Richerby Commented Aug 10, 2018 at 16:00
At MIT, most courses assign homework in " problem sets ".
A typical engineering student has to do four problem sets per week: one for each course that he or she is enrolled in.
A typical TA (Teaching Assistant) has to grade dozens of problem sets per week: one for each student in his (or rarely her) recitation section(s).
A typical problem set consists of several problems.
Some courses (especially in Technical Writing and the Humanities) require students to write weekly essays, instead of solve weekly problem sets.
'30 sets of homework' perhaps.
But 'I've got 30 homeworks to mark' doesn't sound wrong.
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[ hohm -wurk ]
- schoolwork assigned to be done outside the classroom ( distinguished from classwork ).
- a single assignment of such schoolwork: Homeworks are due at the beginning of class.
- paid work done at home , as piecework.
to do one's homework for the next committee meeting.
/ ˈhəʊmˌwɜːk /
- school work done out of lessons, esp at home
- any preparatory study
- work done at home for pay
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The homework assignments are worth 10% of the final grade. I have some homework to do on the Civil War. I want you to hand in this homework on Friday. The science teacher always gives a lot of homework. They get a lot of homework in English. They get masses of homework at secondary school. We had to write out one of the exercises for homework.
How to use homework in a sentence. piecework done at home for pay; an assignment given to a student to be completed outside the regular class period… See the full definition ... homework. noun. home· work ˈhōm-ˌwərk : work and especially school lessons to be done outside the regular class period.
Definition of homework noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
The earliest known use of the noun homework is in the mid 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for homework is from 1653, in the writing of Edmund Chillenden, parliamentarian army officer and General Baptist leader. homework is formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: home n.1, work n. See etymology.
homeworks noun. plural of homework Synonyms of homeworks. as in schoolwork. Synonyms & Near Synonyms for homeworks. schoolwork assignments, lessons, reading lectures drills, exercises, practices (also practises) études, studies (Interestingly, the Merriam-Webster dictionary entry does not give a plural form for homework.)
HOMEWORK meaning: 1. work that teachers give their students to do at home: 2. work that teachers give their students…. Learn more.
HOMEWORK definition: 1. work that teachers give students to do at home: 2. to prepare carefully for a situation: . Learn more.
Any assignment you're expected to complete after school and bring back to class the next day is called homework. Many students make up excuses for not having their homework done. ... Other forms: homeworks. ... noun. preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) synonyms: prep, ...
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In the US "homework" is considered to be a "mass" noun and articles are not used. (May be different in the UK or India.) A "homework assignment" is an individual piece of homework and does take an article. - Hot Licks. Commented Jan 13, 2016 at 3:56. 1. Native speakers don't say a homework.
Both are considered mass nouns, just like milk, air, etc.. However, work can also refer to a singular piece of creation (art, literature, plays, etc.), in which case it can be pluralized: These are all the works of Shakespeare.. If you want to refer to a specific part of your work, you could use task:. I completed twelve tasks.I got a lot of work done today.
1. But if you set thirty exercises as homework then one 'unit' of homework would be thirty exercises, so 'exercise' isn't the unit for 'the homework received from one pupil'. - Pete Kirkham. Aug 9, 2018 at 15:01. @PeteKirkham All in all, "One exercise" can be a "Piece of homework" or "A part of assignment" .
HOMEWORK definition: 1. work that teachers give their students to do at home: 2. work that teachers give their students…. Learn more.
Homework definition: schoolwork assigned to be done outside the classroom (distinguished from classwork).. See examples of HOMEWORK used in a sentence.
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Answer. The noun homework can be countable or uncountable. In more general, commonly used, contexts, the plural form will also be homework. However, in more specific contexts, the plural form can also be homeworks e.g. in reference to various types of homeworks or a collection of homeworks. Find more words!
Common or generic nouns can be broken down into three subtypes: concrete nouns, abstract nouns, and collective nouns. A concrete noun is something that is perceived by the senses; something that is physical or real. I heard the doorbell. My keyboard is sticky. Doorbell and keyboard name real things that can be sensed.
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It is singular. My homework is singular. It names. the collective tasks I have to do. Bienvenido mr_Croft! Note: Some dictionaries describe this noun as "uncountable". There are many threads here about uncountable nouns. You may find them by using the forum Search feature, or by looking up the word "uncountable" in the WordReference English ...