Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A space that is or may be occupied.
- noun An area separated by walls or partitions from other similar parts of the structure or building in which it is located.
- noun The people present in such an area.
- noun Living quarters; lodgings.
- noun Suitable opportunity or scope.
- intransitive verb To occupy a room; lodge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A deep-blue dye like indigo, obtained by maceration from the shrub Strobilanthes flaccidifolius (Ruellia indigotica, etc.); also, the plant itself, which is native and cultivated in India, Burma, and China.
- To occupy a room or rooms; lodge: as, he rooms at No. 7.
- noun In coal-mining, a breast; a chamber.
- noun In salt-making, one of the large stationary pans in which the brine from a salt-well is placed to allow the water to evaporate.
- noun In wood ship-building, the empty space between two adjacent frames of a wooden ship.
- noun Space; compass; extent of space, great or small: as, here is room enough for an army.
- noun Space or place unoccupied or unobstructed; place for reception of any thing or person; accommodation for entering or for moving about: as, to make room for a carriage to pass.
- noun Fit occasion; opportunity; freedom to admit or indulge: as, in this case there is no room for doubt or for argument.
- noun Place or station once occupied by another; stead, as in succession or substitution: as, one magistrate or king comes in the room of a former one.
- noun Any inclosure or division separated by partitions from other parts of a house or other structure; a chamber; an apartment; a compartment; a cabin, or the like: as, a drawing-room; a bedroom; a state-room in a ship; an engine-room in a factory; a harness-room in a stable.
- noun Particular place or station; a seat.
- noun A box or seat in a theater.
- noun Family; company.
- noun Office; post; position.
- noun A fishing-station; also, an establishment for curing fish.
- noun A heading or working-place in a coal-mine.
- noun The stomach: as, to fill the blubber-room (to take a hearty meal). [Whalers' slang.]
- noun Synonyms Capacity, scope, latitude, range, sweep, swing, play.
- Wide; spacious; roomy.
- Far; at a distance; wide, in space or extent; in nautical use, off from the wind.
- noun Dandruff.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge.
- adjective obsolete Spacious; roomy.
- noun Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small
- noun A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.
- noun Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.
- noun obsolete Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated.
- noun Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion.
- noun (Shipbuilding) the distance from one side of a rib to the corresponding side of the next rib;
space being the distance between two ribs, in the clear, androom the width of a rib. - noun to withdraw; to leave or provide space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated.
- noun to open a space, way, or passage; to remove obstructions; to give room.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb
Far ; at a distance;wide in space or extent. - adverb nautical Off from the
wind . - adjective
Wide ;spacious ;roomy . - noun countable With possessive pronoun: one's
bedroom . - verb To
reside , especially as aboarder ortenant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb live and take one's meals at or in
- noun the people who are present in a room
- noun opportunity for
- noun space for movement
- noun an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In some hospitals it is customary to transport the woman from the labour room to a specific delivery room at the onset of the second stage.
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Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic.
Chapter 1 1918
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Still surveying the room, she moves here and there, and, her eyes lighting on the box of flowers, she goes to the door of_ VIDA'S _room and speaks to her.
Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea Langdon Elwyn Mitchell 1898
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***duz teh kwazee kitteh mad dash frum room to room****
His only superpower was - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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* doctors come running withh a bed and take nick to a room and joe selena and demi go to the waiting room*
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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See ge-risne. ge-rȳman, w. v.: 1) _to make room for, prepare, provide room_: pret. pl.
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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See ge-risne. ge-rýman, w. v.: 1) _to make room for, prepare, provide room_: pret. pl.
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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Fifteen booths were arranged around the sides of the hall, with a five-foot aisle between the booths and the partition separating the main room from the veranda.
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Fifteen booths were arranged around the sides of the hall, with a five-foot aisle between the booths and the partition separating the main room from the veranda.
Creation of the Beachwood Volunteer Fire Company « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009
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Fifteen booths were arranged around the sides of the hall, with a five-foot aisle between the booths and the partition separating the main room from the veranda.
oroboros commented on the word room
Heard a musician aquaintance use this word to describe the arena or venue of his performance. "They've got a good room there; it was a great gig."
October 6, 2007