ROOM

room

(noun) an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; “the rooms were very small but they had a nice view”

room

(noun) the people who are present in a room; “the whole room was cheering”

room, way, elbow room

(noun) space for movement; “room to pass”; “make way for”; “hardly enough elbow room to turn around”

room

(noun) opportunity for; “room for improvement”

board, room

(verb) live and take one’s meals at or in; “she rooms in an old boarding house”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Noun

room (countable and uncountable, plural rooms)

(now, rare) Opportunity or scope (to do something). [from 9th c.]

(uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity. [from 10th c.]

(archaic) A particular portion of space. [from 11th c.]

(uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something. [from 15th c.]

(nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame. [from 15th c.]

(obsolete) Place; stead.

(countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling. [from 15th c.]

(countable, with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.

(in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings. [from 17th c.]

(always in the singular, metonymy) The people in a room. [from 17th c.]

(mining) An area for working in a coal mine. [from 17th c.]

(caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage. [from 17th c.]

(Internet, countable) A IRC or chat room. [from 20th c.]

Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.

Furniture sufficient to furnish a room.

Synonyms

• (space): elbow room, legroom, space

• (part of a building): chamber, quarters

• (part of a cave): chamber

• rm

• See also room

Hyponyms

• art room

• AV room

• backroom

• ballroom

• bathroom

• bedroom

• billiards room

• boardroom

• blue room

• boiler room

• break room

• changing room

• chat room

• classroom

• cold room

• collaboration room

• common room

• computer room

• control room

• copy room

• courtroom

• cutting room

• darkroom

• delivery room

• dining room

• discussion room

• display room

• dormroom

• dressing room

• embalming room

• emergency room

• engine room

• examination room

• fitting room

• Florida room

• front room

• game room

• giftwrapping room

• green room

• guest room

• headroom

• inner room

• lamp room

• laundry room

• legroom

• lightroom

• living room

• locker room

• lunchroom

• map room

• meditation room

• meeting room

• mud room

• music room

• newsroom

• operating room

• other room

• padded room

• panic room

• plant room

• play room

• pool room

• powder room

• prep room

• press room

• private room

• pump room

• reading room

• ready room

• recording room

• refreshment room

• reptile room

• romper room

• rubber room

• rumpus room

• save room

• school room

• science room

• screening room

• sewing room

• showroom

• sickroom

• sitting room

• sound room

• spare room

• staffroom

• steam room

• storeroom

• strong room

• study room

• sunroom

• tearoom

• toilet room

• upper room

• upstairs room

• viewing room

• waiting room

• war room

• washroom

• weightroom

• wiggle room

• workroom

Verb

room (third-person singular simple present rooms, present participle rooming, simple past and past participle roomed)

(intransitive) To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.

(transitive) To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

Etymology 2

Adjective

room (comparative more room, superlative most room)

(dialectal or obsolete) Wide; spacious; roomy.

Etymology 3

Adverb

room (comparative more room, superlative most room)

(dialectal or obsolete) Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.

(nautical) Off from the wind.

Etymology 4

Noun

room (uncountable)

Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”)

Anagrams

• Moor, Moro, Romo, moor

Source: Wiktionary

Room, n. Etym: [OE. roum, rum, space, AS. rum; akin to OS., OFries. & Icel. rum, D. ruim, G. raum, OHG. rum, Sw. & Dan. rum, Goth. rums, and to AS. rum, adj., spacious, D. ruim, Icel. rumr, Goth. rums; and prob. to L. rus country (cf. Rural), Zend ravanh wide, free, open, ravan a plain.]

1. Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room. Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. Luke xiv. 22. There was no room for them in the inn. Luke ii. 7.

2. A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat. If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse. Overbury. When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room. Luke xiv. 8.

3. Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber. I found the prince in the next room. Shak.

4. Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated. [Obs.] When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod. Matt. ii. 22. Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven. Tyndale. Let Bianca take her sister's room. Shak.

5. Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope. There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance. Addison. Room and space (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, and room the width of a rib.

– To give room, to withdraw; to leave or provide space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated.

– To make room, to open a space, way, or passage; to remove obstructions; to give room. Make room, and let him stand before our face. Shak.

Syn.

– Space; compass; scope; latitude.

Room, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Rooming.]

Definition: To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together.

Room, a. Etym: [AS. rum.]

Definition: Spacious; roomy. [Obs.] No roomer harbour in the place. Chaucer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

ROOM

Etymology 1

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Etymology 2

Adjective

Etymology 3

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Etymology 4

Noun

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