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room

UK/ɹʊm/ US/ɹuːm/ very common
noun (4) verb (1)

noun

1.

an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling

  • “the rooms were very small but they had a nice view”
2.

space for movement

  • “room to pass”
  • “make way for”
  • “hardly enough elbow room to turn around”
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3.

opportunity for

  • “room for improvement”
4.

the people who are present in a room

  • “the whole room was cheering”

verb

1.

live and take one''s meals at or in

  • “she rooms in an old boarding house”
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Origin

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”).

Phrases

  • 800-pound gorilla in the room
  • adult in the room
  • Ames room
  • anger room
  • Arizona room
  • art room
  • assembly room
  • assume room temperature
  • room together Terms derived from the room (verb)
  • Template:Room on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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