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room

/ɹuːm/

noun

Meaning

  • 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.

  • Place; stead.

  • A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.

  • (with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.

    "Go to your room!"

  • (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.

  • (always in the singular, metonymy) The people in a room.

    "The room was on its feet."

  • An area for working in a coal mine.

  • A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.

  • A IRC or chat room.

    "Some users may not be able to access the AOL room."

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

  • Furniture sufficient to furnish a room.

Synonyms

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

verb

Meaning

  • To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.

    "Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street."

  • To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.