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[room, room]

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noun

a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts: a dining room.

rooms, lodgings or quarters, as in a house or building.

the persons present in a room: The whole room laughed.

space or extent of space occupied by or available for something: The desk takes up too much room.

opportunity or scope for something: room for improvement; room for doubt.

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status or a station in life considered as a place: He fought for room at the top.

capacity: Her brain had no room for trivia.

Mining. a working area cut between pillars.

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verb (used without object)

to occupy a room or rooms; lodge.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English roum(e), Old English rūm; cognate with Dutch ruim, German Raum

Related forms

un·der·room, noun

Synonyms
5. provision, margin, allowance.

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room (ruːm, rʊm)

—n
1.	space or extent, esp unoccupied or unobstructed space for a particular purpose: is there room to pass?
2.	an area within a building enclosed by a floor, a ceiling, and walls or partitions: sitting room; dining room
3.	(functioning as singular or plural) the people present in a room: the whole room was laughing
4.	(foll by for) opportunity or scope: room for manoeuvre
5.	(plural) a part of a house, hotel, etc, that is rented out as separate accommodation; lodgings: she got rooms in town
6.	a euphemistic word for lavatory

—vb
7.	chiefly (US) (intr) to occupy or share a room or lodging: where does he room?

[Old English rūm; related to Gothic, Old High German rūm]

'roomer

—n

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Word Origin & History

room

O.E. rum "space," from P.Gmc. *ruman (cf. O.N., O.S., O.H.G., Goth. rum, Ger. Raum "space," Du. ruim "hold of a ship, nave"), nouns formed from Gmc. adj. *ruma- "roomy, spacious," perhaps from a PIE base *rew- "wide, open" (cf. Avestan ravah- "space," L. rus "open country," O.Ir. roi, roe "plain field").

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Original sense preserved in make room "clear space for oneself" (1375); meaning "chamber, cabin" first recorded 1312 as a nautical term, and first applied 1457 to chambers within houses. The O.E. word for this was cofa, ancestor of cove. The verb meaning "to occupy rooms" (especially with another) as a lodger" is first recorded 1828. Room-service is attested from 1930; room-temperature from 1924. Adj. roomy is attested from 1627. Roommate is first attested 1789, Amer.Eng. (short form roomie is from 1918). Roomth "sufficient space" (1540) now is obsolete.

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