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room
[ room, room ]
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.
- 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.
verb (used without object)
- to occupy a room or rooms; lodge.
room
/ ruːm; rʊm /
noun
- space or extent, esp unoccupied or unobstructed space for a particular purpose
is there room to pass?
- an area within a building enclosed by a floor, a ceiling, and walls or partitions
sitting room
dining room
- functioning as singular or plural the people present in a room
the whole room was laughing
- foll by for opportunity or scope
room for manoeuvre
- plural a part of a house, hotel, etc, that is rented out as separate accommodation; lodgings
she got rooms in town
- a euphemistic word for lavatory
verb
- intr to occupy or share a room or lodging
where does he room?
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Derived Forms
- ˈroomer, noun
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Other Words From
- under·room noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of room1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of room1
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Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with room , also see not enough room to swing a cat ; take up space (room) .Discover More
Example Sentences
Toomey glides around the room like a Brazilian capoeira dancer.
One day he and some of his roommates were cleaning their room and one of the guys threw the dustpan out into the hall.
Marvin and I leave the poolside and go into his dining room.
The resources were what you might expect: Dining room, a media center, a library, a TV room, a meeting room, a computer room.
Barry showed me his room—a one bedroom with a killer view of Riverbank State Park and the Hudson.
The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
His lordship retired shortly to his study, Hetton and Mr. Haggard betook themselves to the billiard-room.
When his lordship retired early, as was his custom, the other men adjourned once more to the billiard-room.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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