'Room' definitions:
Definition of 'room'
From: WordNet
noun
An area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view"
noun
Space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around" [syn: room, way, elbow room]
noun
Opportunity for; "room for improvement"
noun
The people who are present in a room; "the whole room was cheering"
verb
Live and take one's meals at or in; "she rooms in an old boarding house" [syn: board, room]
Definition of 'Room'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Room'
From: GCIDE
- Room \Room\, a. [AS. r[=u]m.] Spacious; roomy. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- No roomer harbour in the place. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Room'
From: GCIDE
- Room \Room\ (r[=oo]m), n. [OE. roum, rum, space, AS. r[=u]m; akin to OS., OFries. & Icel. r[=u]m, D. ruim, G. raum, OHG. r[=u]m, Sw. & Dan. rum, Goth. r[=u]ms, and to AS. r[=u]m, adj., spacious, D. ruim, Icel. r[=u]mr, Goth. r[=u]ms; and prob. to L. rus country (cf. Rural), Zend rava[.n]h 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. [1913 Webster]
- Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. --Luke xiv. 22. [1913 Webster]
- There was no room for them in the inn. --Luke ii. 7. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat. [1913 Webster]
- If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse. --Overbury. [1913 Webster]
- When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room. --Luke xiv. 8. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber. [1913 Webster]
- I found the prince in the next room. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod. --Matt. ii. 22. [1913 Webster]
- Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster]
- Let Bianca take her sister's room. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope. [1913 Webster]
- There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Make room, and let him stand before our face. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Space; compass; scope; latitude. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'room'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a leg up,
- abide,
- accommodation,
- accommodations,
- air space,
- allowance,
- ample scope,
- apartment,
- area,
- bed,
- berth,
- billet,
- blank check,
- board,
- bunk,
- burden,
- caesura,
- capacity,
- carte blanche,
- cell,
- chamber,
- chambers,
- chance,
- clear stage,
- clearance,
- cohabit,
- compartment,
- content,
- cordage,
- cubicle,
- diggings,
- digs,
- discontinuity,
- distance between,
- domicile,
- domiciliate,
- doss down,
- double space,
- dwell,
- dwelling,
- elbowroom,
- em space,
- en space,
- extent,
- fair field,
- fair game,
- field,
- flat,
- free course,
- free hand,
- free play,
- free scope,
- freeboard,
- full scope,
- full swing,
- hair space,
- half space,
- hang out,
- harbor,
- headroom,
- hiatus,
- house,
- housing,
- hut,
- inhabit,
- interim,
- intermediate space,
- interruption,
- interspace,
- interstice,
- interval,
- jump,
- lacuna,
- latitude,
- leap,
- leeway,
- liberty,
- license,
- limit,
- live,
- living quarters,
- lodge,
- lodging,
- lodgings,
- lodgment,
- long rope,
- maneuvering space,
- margin,
- measure,
- nest,
- no holds barred,
- occasion,
- occupy,
- office,
- open space,
- opening,
- opportunism,
- opportunity,
- perch,
- place,
- play,
- poundage,
- put up,
- quantity,
- quarter,
- quarters,
- range,
- rein,
- remain,
- rental,
- reside,
- room to spare,
- rooms,
- roost,
- rope,
- scope,
- sea room,
- shelter,
- single space,
- sleeping place,
- space,
- space between,
- spare room,
- squat,
- stable,
- stay,
- stepping-stone,
- stowage,
- suite,
- sway,
- swing,
- tenant,
- tenement,
- time,
- time interval,
- tolerance,
- tonnage,
- volume,
- way,
- wide berth
Words containing 'Room'
- Roomed,
- Roomful,
- Roomfuls,
- Rooming,
- rooms,
- By-room,
- Combination room,
- Conference room,
- Crush room,
- Dark room,
- Draughting room,
- Dressing room,
- Ground room,
- Hunter's room,
- Keeping room,
- Lloyd's Rooms,
- Lodging room,
- Lumber room,
- Muniment room,
- Powder room,
- Presence room,
- Pump room,
- Reading room,
- Robing room,
- Room and space,
- Sail room,
- Sea room,
- Sick room,
- Sitting room,
- Steam room,
- Sweating room,
- Timber and room,
- To give room,
- To make room,
- War room,
- Well room,
- adjoining room,
- baby's room,
- back room,
- bed room,
- bedsitting room,
- billiard room,
- boiler room,
- breathing room,
- chat room,
- child's room,
- city room,
- clean room,
- common room,
- connecting room,
- control room,
- cutting room,
- dead room,
- dining room,
- dorm room,
- dormitory room,
- drawing room,
- elbow room,
- emergency room,
- engine room,
- family room,
- front room,
- furnace room,
- game room,
- gun room,
- home room,
- hospital room,
- hotel room,
- ladies' room,
- lecture room,
- living room,
- locker room,
- men's room,
- morning room,
- motel room,
- operating room,
- rec room,
- reception room,
- recovery room,
- recreation room,
- rest room,
- room access,
- room clerk,
- room decorator,
- room light,
- room rate,
- room temperature,
- rooming house,
- rumpus room,
- seating room,
- sewing room,
- shipping room,
- shower room,
- sleeping room,
- smoking room,
- squad room,
- standing room,
- standing room only,
- still room,
- stock room,
- storage room,
- strong room,
- sweat room,
- television room,
- test room,
- testing room,
- tv room,
- waiting room,
- wash room,
- white room,
- wiggle room,
- withdrawing room,
- Drawing-room,
- Tiring-room,
- Withdrawing-room,
- common-room,
- dining-room,
- living-room,
- locker-room,
- Drawing-room car,
- bar-room plant,
- dining-room attendant,
- dining-room furniture,
- dining-room table,
- laminar flow clean room