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chalkface.

A cliff or quarry exposing chalk, e.g. the White Cliffs of Dover

9 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A cliff or quarry exposing chalk, e.g. the White Cliffs of Dover

  2. The environment where teaching is carried out, specifically a school.

Where this word comes from

From chalk + face. In the education sense, it is a play on coalface (“place where practical work is done”), after the chalk used on school blackboards, and is believed to have been coined by Ted Wragg for his Times Educational Supplement column.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.