waiting room
Use Waiting room in a sentencewaiting room
noun
a room for the use of persons waiting, as in a railroad station or a physician's office.
Origin:
1675–85
1675–85
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| waiting room | |
| —n | |
| a room in which people may wait, as at a railway station, doctor's or dentist's office, etc | |
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Waiting room
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
Example sentences
He was given a baseball cap to cover his baldness in the waiting room while the work was being done.
Meanwhile, two emergency medical technicians wheel an injured patient on a gurney into the hallway of a packed waiting room.
The technician spends a few minutes under your hood, then comes into the waiting room with your car's air filter in his hand.
We walked briskly from the waiting room to my office.
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