senior common room

noun

1. (in British universities, colleges, etc) a common room for the use of academic staff Compare junior common room

Example Sentences

Nowadays, the report laments, the discipline is considered by many "to be old-fashioned, hide bound, conservative and boring - a discipline of old men in tweed coats who still hanker after the stuffy and sexist atmosphere of the senior common room."

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She had responded with a volley of shrieking curses that shocked the poor Scholar who was escorting her, and in the Senior Common Room she’d slumped mutinously in an armchair until the Master told her sharply to sit up, and then she’d glowered at them all till even the Chaplain had to laugh.

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I have also found that the academy can be much more open-minded and imaginative than some popular publishers, whose vision of “historical importance” lags generations behind the research frontier, and in some cases would not be out of place in the Victorian senior common room.

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One of his chairs was selected by the rector for the new RCA senior common room.

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You imagine him going off to the senior common room for a restoring drink, demanding to know how such riffraff got into the college.

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