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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ROOM, n.
1. Space; compass; extent of place, great or small. Let the words occupy as little room as possible.
2. Space or place unoccupied.
Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. Luke 14.
3. Place for reception or admission of any thing. In this case, there is no room for doubt or for argument.
4. Place of another; stead; as in succession or substitution. One magistrate or king comes in the room of a former one. We often place one thing in the room of another. 1 Kings 20.
5. Unoccupied opportunity. The eager pursuit of wealth leaves little room for serious reflection.
6. An apartment in a house; any division separated from the rest by a partition; as a parlor, drawing room or bed-room; also an apartment in a ship, as the cook-room, bread-room, gun-room, etc.
7. A seat. Luke 14.
To make room, to open a way or passage; to free from obstructions.
To make room, to open a space or place for any thing.
To give room, to withdraw; to leave space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated.
ROOM, v.i. To occupy an apartment; to lodge; an academic use of the word. A B rooms at No. 7.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
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" [syn: room, way, elbow room]
3: opportunity for; "room for improvement"
4: the people who are present in a room; "the whole room was cheering" v
1: live and take one's meals at or in; "she rooms in an old boarding house" [syn: board, room]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English r?m; akin to Old High German r?m room, Latin rur-, rus open land Date: before 12th century 1. an extent of space occupied by or sufficient or available for something <room to run and play> 2. a. obsolete an appropriate or designated position, post, or station b. place, stead <in whose room I am now assuming the pen — Sir Walter Scott> 3. a. a partitioned part of the inside of a building; especially such a part used as a lodging b. the people in a room 4. a suitable or fit occasion or opportunity ; chance <no room for doubt> • roomed adjective II. verb Date: 1817 intransitive verb to occupy or share a room especially as a lodger transitive verb to accommodate with lodgings

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a space that is or might be occupied by something; capaciousness or ability to accommodate contents (it takes up too much room; there is plenty of room; we have no room here for idlers). b space in or on (houseroom; shelf-room). 2 a a part of a building enclosed by walls or partitions, floor and ceiling. b (in pl.) a set of these occupied by a person or family; apartments or lodgings. c persons present in a room (the room fell silent). 3 (in comb.) a room or area for a specified purpose (auction-room). 4 (foll. by for, or to + infin.) opportunity or scope (room to improve things; no room for dispute). --v.intr. US have a room or rooms; lodge, board. Phrases and idioms: make room (often foll. by for) clear a space (for a person or thing) by removal of others; make way, yield place. not (or no) room to swing a cat a very confined space. rooming-house a lodging house. room-mate a person occupying the same room as another. room service (in a hotel etc.) service of food or drink taken to a guest's room. Derivatives: -roomed adj. (in comb.). roomful n. (pl. -fuls). Etymology: OE rum f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Room Room, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Rooming.] To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Room Room, a. [AS. r[=u]m.] Spacious; roomy. [Obs.] No roomer harbour in the place. --Chaucer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(rooms, rooming, roomed) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. A room is one of the separate sections or parts of the inside of a building. Rooms have their own walls, ceilings, floors, and doors, and are usually used for particular activities. You can refer to all the people who are in a room as the room. A minute later he excused himself and left the room... The whole room roared with laughter. N-COUNT 2. If you talk about your room, you are referring to the room that you alone use, especially your bedroom at home or your office at work. If you're running upstairs, go to my room and bring down my sweater, please. N-COUNT: poss N 3. A room is a bedroom in a hotel. Toni booked a room in an hotel not far from Arzfeld. N-COUNT 4. If you room with someone, you share a rented room, apartment, or house with them, for example when you are a student. (AM) I had roomed with him in New Haven when we were both at Yale Law School. VERB: V with n, also V together 5. If there is room somewhere, there is enough empty space there for people or things to be fitted in, or for people to move freely or do what they want to. There is usually room to accommodate up to 80 visitors... N-UNCOUNT see also leg room, standing room 6. If there is room for a particular kind of behaviour or action, people are able to behave in that way or to take that action. The intensity of the work left little room for personal grief or anxiety... N-UNCOUNT: usu N for n 7. If you have room for manoeuvre, you have the opportunity to change your plans if it becomes necessary or desirable. With an election looming, he has little room for manoeuvre. PHRASE: PHR after v, poss PHR, with PHR 8. to give something houseroom: see houseroom see also changing room, chat room, common room, consulting room, dining room, drawing room, dressing room, elbow room, emergency room, ladies' room, leg room, living room, locker room, men's room, morning room, powder room, reading room, reception room, rest room, spare room, standing room

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

room.

See HOUSE.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Space, extent, expanse, scope, compass, field, range, sweep, swing, play, latitude. 2. Place, stead. 3. Apartment, chamber. 4. Chance, opportunity, occasion. 5. Unoccupied space, unoccupied place.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

She lets out her fore room and lies backwards: saying of a woman suspected of prostitution.

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