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room

Pronunciation: /ɹʊm/

The English word “room” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. An opportunity or scope (to do something).
  2. Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
  3. A particular portion of space.
  4. Sufficient space for or to do something.
  5. A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
  6. A place; a stead.
  7. A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
  8. (One's) bedroom.
  9. A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
  10. The people in a room.
  11. An area for working in a coal mine.
  12. A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
  13. An IRC or chat room.
  14. A place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
  15. A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.

verb

  1. To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
  2. To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

adjective

  1. Wide; spacious; roomy.

adverb

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

Etymology

From Middle English roum (“room, space”), from Old English rūm (“room, space”), from Proto-West Germanic *rūm (“room”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmą (“room”), from Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH- (“to root; to rip, tear”), from *Hrew- (“to tear out, open”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian rüm (“room, space”), Saterland Frisian and Low German Ruum (“room, space”), Dutch ruim (“open space; cargo…

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