room

Plural: rooms

Noun

• an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
  • "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view"
• space for movement
  • "room to pass"
  • "hardly enough elbow room to turn around"
• opportunity for
  • "room for improvement"
• the people who are present in a room
  • "the whole room was cheering"
• An opportunity or scope (to do something).
• Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
• A particular portion of space.
• Sufficient space for or to do something.
• A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
• A place; a stead.
• A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
• (One's) bedroom.
• A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
• The people in a room.
• An area for working in a coal mine.
• A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
• An IRC or chat room.
• A place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
• A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
• Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”).

Verb

Verb Forms: roomed, rooming, rooms

• To occupy a space or living quarters.
• live and take one's meals at or in
  • "she rooms in an old boarding house"
• To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
• To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

Adj

• Wide; spacious; roomy.

Adv

• Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
• Off from the wind.

Examples

• Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street.
• Go to your room!
• He was good at reading rooms.
• I plan to ROOM with a new strategy for my next Scrabble game.
• It was fun to watch her work the room.
• Some users may not be able to access the AOL room.
• The room was on its feet.

Synonyms

board, elbow room, way, chamber, legroom, quarters, rm, room, space

Related Words

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