room
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.
to occupy a room or rooms; lodge.
Origin of room
1Other words for room
Other words from room
- un·der·room, noun
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
How to use room in a sentence
Inside the guild, men in caps and long gowns sit in twos, weaving together in small rooms.
The Photographer Who Gave Up Manhattan for Marrakech | Liza Foreman | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTMany hold classes in their living rooms, asking students to help re-arrange and then later put back furniture.
Iran’s Becoming a Footloose Nation as Dance Lessons Spread | IranWire | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was once the most glamorous hotel in town, but in 1964, hundreds of European hostages were held captive in its rooms.
Small rooms off its graffiti-covered foyer provide shelter from the thick rain that can unexpectedly, and vengefully, hit.
They also frequented online chat rooms where fellow Islamic zealots teed off with venomous rants about their hate for infidels.
In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsIt was close upon twelve o'clock, and the "Rooms" had been open to the public for two hours.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonHe had got his ticket of admission to the Casino, after arriving yesterday evening; but the Rooms had not pleased him then.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonOne wonders why even some of the common British Ferns are not more generally cultivated in rooms.
How to Know the Ferns | S. Leonard BastinIn most club card-rooms smoking is not permitted, but at the Pandemonium it is the fashion to smoke everywhere.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James Wills
British Dictionary definitions for room
/ (ruːm, rʊm) /
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 (def. 1)
(intr) mainly US to occupy or share a room or lodging: where does he room?
Origin of room
1Derived forms of room
- roomer, noun
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with room
In addition to the idiom beginning with room
- room and board
also see:
- not enough room to swing a cat
- take up space (room)
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Browse