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[room, roo
m] 
–noun
| 1. | a portion of space within a building or other structure, separated by walls or partitions from other parts: a dining room. |
| 2. | rooms, lodgings or quarters, as in a house or building. |
| 3. | the persons present in a room: The whole room laughed. |
| 4. | space or extent of space occupied by or available for something: The desk takes up too much room. |
| 5. | opportunity or scope for something: room for improvement; room for doubt. |
| 6. | status or a station in life considered as a place: He fought for room at the top. |
| 7. | capacity: Her brain had no room for trivia. |
| 8. | Mining. a working area cut between pillars. |
–verb (used without object)
| 9. | to occupy a room or rooms; lodge. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME roum(e), OE rūm; c. D ruim, G Raum
bef. 900; ME roum(e), OE rūm; c. D ruim, G Raum
Synonyms:
5. provision, margin, allowance.
5. provision, margin, allowance.
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| room (rōōm, rŏŏm) n.
To occupy a room; lodge. [Middle English roum, from Old English rūm; see reuə- in Indo-European roots.] Synonyms: These nouns denote adequate space or opportunity for freedom of movement or action: room for improvement; needed elbowroom to negotiate effectively; no latitude allowed in conduct; allowed the chef leeway in choosing the menu; no margin for error; imagination given full play; permitting their talents free scope. |
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Room
Room\ (r[=oo]m), n. [OE. roum, rum, space, AS. r[=u]m; akin to OS., OFries. & Icel. r[=u]m, D. ruim, G. raum, OHG. r[=u]m, Sw. & Dan. rum, Goth. r[=u]ms, and to AS. r[=u]m, adj., spacious, D. ruim, Icel. r[=u]mr, Goth. r[=u]ms; and prob. to L. rus country (cf. Rural), Zend rava[.n]h wide, free, open, ravan a plain.]1. Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room. Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. --Luke xiv. 22. There was no room for them in the inn. --Luke ii. 7. 2. A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat. If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse. --Overbury. When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room. --Luke xiv. 8. 3. Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber. I found the prince in the next room. --Shak. 4. Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated. [Obs.] When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod. --Matt. ii. 22. Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven. --Tyndale. Let Bianca take her sister's room. --Shak. 5. Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope. There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance. --Addison. Room and space (Shipbuilding), the distance from one side of a rib to the corresponding side of the next rib; space being the distance between two ribs, in the clear, and room the width of a rib. To give room, to withdraw; to leave or provide space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated. To make room, to open a space, way, or passage; to remove obstructions; to give room. Make room, and let him stand before our face. --Shak. Syn: Space; compass; scope; latitude.Room
Room\, a. [AS. r[=u]m.] Spacious; roomy. [Obs.] No roomer harbour in the place. --Chaucer.
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Language Translation for : room
Spanish:
habitación, cuarto, sala,
German:
das Zimmer,
Japanese:
部屋
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"). 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: room
Pronunciation: 'rüm, 'rum
Function: noun
: a partitioned part of the inside of a hospital; especially : a space forlodging patients
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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room
In addition to the idiom beginning with room, also see not enough room to swing a cat; take up space (room).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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