adj
Meaning 1
Wide; spacious; roomy.
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Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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adj
Wide; spacious; roomy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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adv
Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
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Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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adv
Off from the wind.
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Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
An opportunity or scope (to do something).
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Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
A particular portion of space.
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Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
Sufficient space for or to do something.
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Usage: figuratively, uncountable
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noun
A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A place; a stead.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
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Usage: countable
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noun
(One's) bedroom.
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Usage: countable
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noun
A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
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Usage: countable, in-plural, uncountable
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noun
The people in a room.
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Usage: countable, metonymically, singular, uncountable, usually
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noun
An area for working in a coal mine.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: business, mining
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noun
A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: caving, hobbies, lifestyle
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noun
An IRC or chat room.
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Usage: Internet, countable
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noun
A place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
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verb
To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: area
Narrower terms: anechoic chamber, anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule, back room, ballroom, dance hall, dance palace, barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom, bathroom, bath, bedroom, sleeping room, sleeping accommodation, chamber, bedchamber, belfry, billiard room, billiard saloon, billiard parlor, billiard parlour, billiard hall, boardroom, council chamber, cardroom, cell, jail cell, prison cell, cubicle, checkroom, left-luggage office, classroom, schoolroom, clean room, white room, cloakroom, coatroom, closet, clubroom, compartment, conference room, control room, court, courtroom, cubby, cubbyhole, snuggery, snug, cutting room, darkroom, den, dinette, dining room, dining-room, door, dressing room, durbar, engineering, engine room, floor, trading floor, furnace room, gallery, art gallery, picture gallery, greenroom, guardroom, hospital room, kitchen, library, living room, living-room, sitting room, front room, parlor, parlour, locker room, lounge, waiting room, waiting area, manor hall, poolroom, presence chamber, rathole, reading room, reception room, recreation room, rec room, rotunda, scriptorium, scullery, sewing room, shipping room, shower room, sickbay, sick berth, sickroom, smoking room, squad room, steam bath, steam room, vapor bath, vapour bath, storeroom, storage room, stowage, study, sun parlor, sun parlour, sun porch, sunporch, sunroom, sun lounge, solarium, surgery, television room, tv room, test room, testing room, toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, torture chamber, vestry, sacristy, walk-in, war room, workroom
noun
the people who are present in a room
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: gathering, assemblage
noun
space for movement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: way, elbow room
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Broader terms: position, spatial relation
Narrower terms: seating, seats, seating room, seating area, standing room, breathing room, breathing space, headroom, headway, clearance, houseroom, living space, lebensraum, parking, sea room
noun
opportunity for
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: opportunity, chance
verb
live and take one's meals at or in
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: board
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Broader terms: populate, dwell, live, inhabit
History
From Middle English roum, rom, rum, from Old English rūm (“roomy, spacious, ample, extensive, large, open, unencumbered, unoccupied, temporal, long, extended, great, liberal, unrestricted, unfettered, clear, loose, free from conditions, free from occupation, not restrained within due limits, lax, far-reaching, abundant, noble, august”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmaz (“roomy, spacious”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewh1- (“free space”). Cognate with Scots roum (“spacious, roomy”), Dutch ruim (“roomy, spacious, wide”), Danish rum (“wide, spacious”), German raum (“wide”), Icelandic rúmur (“spacious”).
From Middle English rome, from Old English rūme (“widely, spaciously, roomily, far and wide, so as to extend over a wide space, liberally, extensively, amply, abundantly, in a high degree, without restriction or encumbrance, without the pressure of care, light-heartedly, without obstruction, plainly, clearly, in detail”). Cognate with Dutch ruim (“amply”, adverb).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-? Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH-der. Proto-Germanic *rūmą Proto-West Germanic *rūm Old English rūm Middle English roum English room 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 hold”), German and Luxembourgish Raum (“room, space”), Vilamovian raojm (“room”), Danish and Swedish rum (“room, space”), Faroese and Icelandic rúm (“space, room”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk rom (“room, space”), Gothic 𐍂𐌿𐌼 (rum, “room, space”); also Irish rúsc (“bark”), Manx roost (“bark; peel, rind”), Scottish Gaelic rùsg (“rind; bark; fleece; shell”), Welsh rhisgl (“bark”), Latin rūs (“country, fields, lands; estate, farm; village”), Ancient Greek ὀρύσσω (orússō), ὀρύττω (orúttō, “to dig”), Latvian raut (“to pull with force”), Lithuanian rauti (“to grub, pull”), Belarusian рыць (rycʹ, “to dig”), Bulgarian ри́я (ríja, “to excavate”), Czech rýt (“to dig; to engrave”), Polish ryć (“to dig”), Russian рыть (rytʹ, “to dig; to burrow, mine”), Slovak ryť (“to dig; to engrave”), Slovene riti (“to dig”), Ukrainian ри́ти (rýty, “to dig, excavate”), Central Kurdish ڕێو (rêw, “public hair”), Tocharian A kärpi (“raw, rough; common”), Tocharian B kärpiye (“raw, rough; common”), Sanskrit लोमन् (loman), रोमन् (roman, “body hair; down, wool”). More at rural. Doublet of Raum, a surname from German. The word superficially appears to be an exception to the Great Vowel Shift, which might have produced the pronunciation /ɹaʊm/, but the retention of Middle English /uː/ before /m/ is regular. In fact, /aʊ/ does not occur before non-coronal consonants in Standard Modern English native vocabulary. Some dialects did undergo diphthongization in such a position and the pronunciation /ɹaʊm/ occurs, for example, in Lancashire.
Across languages
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