room

[ room, room ]

/ rum, rʊm /

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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.

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.

OTHER WORDS FOR room

5 provision, margin, allowance.

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Origin of room

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

OTHER WORDS FROM room

un·der·room, noun

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How to use room in a sentence

Plus, there’s plenty of room to spread out, with seven chairlifts and more than 1,400 skiable acres.
10 Ski Areas Where You Can Camp in the Parking Lot|Megan Michelson|November 20, 2020|Outside Online
Sandy LeBrun-Evans took her camera inside a tattered room for a double exposure that combines the ghostliness of Ham’s style with the poignancy of Hyde’s.
In the galleries: The Washington colorists and the CIA|Mark Jenkins|November 20, 2020|Washington Post
The Big Ten and Pac-12 have no room on their schedules to do so.
Maryland, with 15 more players and its coach positive for coronavirus, cancels Michigan State game|Emily Giambalvo|November 19, 2020|Washington Post
That space could turn into a meeting room or a conference space.
D.C. library system wants to build new branches, including a first in Adams Morgan|Julie Zauzmer|November 19, 2020|Washington Post

E-scooters sent 29,600 riders to the emergency room last year, up from 15,500 the year prior.
E-scooters are getting computer vision to curb pedestrian collisions|Dalvin Brown|November 19, 2020|Washington Post
When I returned to the rooming house in the late afternoon, I found a handwritten note pinned to the front door.
Knocking on Heaven's Door: True Stories of Unexplained, Uncanny Experiences at the Hour of Death|Patricia Pearson|August 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
From a second-story window of a rooming house covered with red brick-patterned tarpaper comes the sound of a blues harmonica.
Stanley Booth on the Life and Hard Times of Blues Genius Furry Lewis|Stanley Booth|June 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His life as the child of a vaudeville couple was one-step above living in the circus—cheap hotels and rooming houses were home.
Mickey Rooney Was Hollywood’s Golden Age Showman|Lorenza Muñoz|April 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Robinson signed on for $63.25 a month and moved into a rooming house.
Eddie Robinson, College Football’s Winningest Coach|Samuel G. Freedman|August 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He fancied himself a Marxist, lived in rooming houses under aliases and was a furtive, nasty man.
Read This Book to Understand Lee Harvey Oswald|Joseph Finder|August 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He ran all the way back to Lucy's house, threw down the key he had got from her, and then went to his own rooming-house.
The Winning Clue|James Hay, Jr.
"I hear I'm rooming with you," said Stover, shaking hands with the Shad.
The Varmint|Owen Johnson
He had been going to report to Webber when he had run into that golden field in the rooming-house hallway.
The Dark Door|Alan Edward Nourse
Then the beat swung off, past a row of small businesses and genuine rooming houses, before turning back to the main section.
Police Your Planet|Lester del Rey
With another she goes often to the cities—rambling among the rooming-houses, cheaper restaurants and mills.
The Hive|Will Levington Comfort

British Dictionary definitions for room

room

/ (ruːm, rʊm) /

noun

space or extent, esp unoccupied or unobstructed space for a particular purposeis there room to pass?

an area within a building enclosed by a floor, a ceiling, and walls or partitionssitting room; dining room

(functioning as singular or plural) the people present in a roomthe whole room was laughing

(foll by for) opportunity or scoperoom for manoeuvre

(plural) a part of a house, hotel, etc, that is rented out as separate accommodation; lodgingsshe got rooms in town

a euphemistic word for lavatory (def. 1)

verb

(intr) mainly US to occupy or share a room or lodgingwhere does he room?

Derived forms of room

roomer, noun

Word Origin for room

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

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room and board

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not enough room to swing a cat
take up space (room)

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