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strongroom

Or strong room

[strawng-room, -room, strong-]

noun

  1. a fireproof, burglarproof room in which valuables are kept.



strongroom

/ ˈstrɒŋˌruːm, -ˌrʊm /

noun

  1. a specially designed room in which valuables are locked for safety

“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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of strongroom1

First recorded in 1755–65; strong + room
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Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Unfortunately, the safe was too large to make it through the strongroom doorway and officials opted to have it placed in the castle library instead.

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After years of hiding in stairwells, Weinstein said she and her husband are lucky to have gained a strongroom in the sixth-floor apartment they moved to last month.

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Kept in a strongroom with four papyrus scrolls from Herculaneum, the material is tested before and after display and shown in the same womb-like darkness that wraps the Book of Kells in Dublin.

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We are in the strongroom of his shop in north London, where he is showing off some of the hundreds of bags that customers pledge each year, in return for borrowing money.

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In a musty basement strongroom behind two sets of heavy steel doors, workers pulled elephant tusks from piles that nearly reach the ceiling.

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