Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The amount that a room can hold.
- noun The number of people that a room can hold.
- noun The number of people in a room, considered as a group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding with rooms; roomy; spacious.
- noun As much or as many as a room will hold: as, a roomful of people.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare, rare Abounding with room or rooms; roomy.
- noun As much or many as a room will hold.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The amount that a
room can hold, especially the number of people that can fit into a room - noun The people in a room, considered as a group
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quantity a room will hold
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was vexed with the levity that had made him call his roomful together on so poor a pretext, and yet was vexed with the stupidity that made the witnesses so evidently find the pretext sufficient.
The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879
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But Yahoo called a roomful of tech reporters to its headquarters in Sunnyvale to [...]
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But Yahoo called a roomful of tech reporters to its headquarters in Sunnyvale to [...]
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But Yahoo called a roomful of tech reporters to its headquarters in Sunnyvale to say that it's still fighting.
Wired Top Stories Ryan Singel 2010
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Speaking to what the Associated Press describes as a roomful of "cringing diplomats", the new foreign minister said Israel was not bound by the Annapolis peace talks.
Cosmodaddy 2009
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Speaking to what the Associated Press describes as a roomful of "cringing diplomats", the new foreign minister said Israel was not bound by the Annapolis peace talks.
Cosmodaddy 2009
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Instead of one Ben Bernanke, we got a whole roomful: Bernanke the Job Creator, Bernanke the Budget Cutter, Bernanke the Activist, Bernanke the Fatalist ...
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Bernankemania! Empty Golden Words From the Leader of the Temple RJ 2011
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Instead of one Ben Bernanke, we got a whole roomful: Bernanke the Job Creator, Bernanke the Budget Cutter, Bernanke the Activist, Bernanke the Fatalist ...
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Bernankemania! Empty Golden Words From the Leader of the Temple RJ 2011
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Show a roomful of Democratic pols smoking Cuban cigars and joking about how easy it is to dupe grandma with simple scaremongering, and how her children and grandchildren will be working much of their lives for the greater good of the state.
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In Islamabad last week, a roomful of academics asked the prime minister how Britain could help solve the Kashmir conflict.
Notable & Quotable 2011
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