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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.
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the persons present in a room: The whole room laughed.
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space or extent of space occupied by or available for something: The desk takes up too much room.
5.
EXPANDopportunity 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.
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capacity: Her brain had no room for trivia.
8.
COLLAPSEMining. a working area cut between pillars.
verb (used without object)
9.
to occupy a room or rooms; lodge.
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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Origin:
before 900; Middle English roum(e), Old English rūm; cognate with Dutch ruim, German Raum
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.
5. provision, margin, allowance.
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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").
EXPANDOriginal 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 Roomth "sufficient space" (1540) now is obsolete.
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