rooms

room  (rm, rm)

n.

1. A space that is or may be occupied: That easy chair takes up too much room.

2.

a. An area separated by walls or partitions from other similar parts of the structure or building in which it is located: the first room on the left; an unpainted room.

b. The people present in such an area: The whole room laughed.

3. rooms Living quarters; lodgings.

4. Suitable opportunity; occasion.

intr.v. roomed, room·ing, rooms

To occupy a room; lodge.

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[Middle English roum, from Old English rm; see reu- in Indo-European roots.]

Synonyms: room, elbowroom, latitude, leeway, margin, play, scope
These nouns denote adequate space or opportunity for freedom of movement or action: room for improvement; needed elbowroom to negotiate effectively; no latitude allowed in conduct; allowed the chef leeway in choosing the menu; no margin for error; imagination given full play; permitting their talents free scope.

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Rooms 

See Also: FURNITURE AND FURNISHINGS, HOUSES

1. [An office] almost as severe as the cell of some medieval monk —J. D. McClatchy
2. Bathroom, mirrored like a discotheque —Diane Ackerman
3. Bedroom … large as a football field and as cold —John Le Carre
4. Black bedroom with mirrors … looks like a wet dream from Walt Disney —Richard North Patterson
5. The blue and white room was … cold and hollow as an October mist —M. J. Farrell
6. The cramped space of the vestibule felt like the inside of a hooded cage —Kenzaburo Oë
7. [Small room] done up in moist red velvet, like the interior of a womb —Angela Carter
8. Dusty [a windowsill] as a literal Sahara —Tom Robbins
9. Entry hall … as impersonal as a hotel lounge —John Braine
10. Everything in the room was yellow … it was a bit like having swallowed by a butterfly —Pat M. Esslinger-Carr
11. [Wooden] floors as blonde as a movie star’s hair —William Hamilton, National Public Radio, “Morning Edition,” April 15, 1987
12. The floor [of room set aside for dancing] gleamed like egg yolk —Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
13. A hall that was cool and vaulted like a cloister —Ross Macdonald
14. (The little den was now) hideous as a torture-chamber —Stephen Crane
15. It [a room] is like a monastic cell —V. S. Pritchett
16. The living room was spacious and divided like Gaul into three parts —John Cheever
17. Oak floors shone like brown glass —Rebecca West
18. On the ceiling the reflection of the waves of the bay outside flickered on and on like conversation —Kate Grenville
19. The paint [on ceiling of room] peeling like the surface of the moon —Jilly Cooper
20. (In my gray) room, bare as a barn —Randall Jarrell
21. Room [small and narrow] … friendly as Death Row —Gavin Lyall
22. The room glows like a field of forget-me-nots in the high country —Patricia Henley
23. A room is like a cast-off shoe, which holds the shape of its owner’s unique foot —Paul Theroux
24. Room … like a cell, except that there were no bars over the one small window —Dashiell Hammett
25. Room like a cupboard —Katherine Mansfield
26. The room [at a Howard Johnson’s motel] … sat like a young bride … wanting only to please you —Max Apple
27. The room was as hot as the inside of a pig’s stomach —Madison Smartt Bell

    See Also: HEAT

28. The room was as quiet and empty as a chapel —Wallace Stegner

    See Also: SILENCE

29. The room was filled like a pool with darkness —Josephine Jacobson
30. The [empty] room was like a fowl plucked clean —Jean Stafford
31. Room … with nothing actually matching anything else but everything living happily together, like the random sowing of flowers —Rosamund Pilcher
32. Study … like the returned-letter department of a post office, with stacks of paper everywhere, bills paid and unpaid, letters answered and unanswered, tax returns, pamphlets, leaflets. If by mistake we left the door open on a windy day, we came back to find papers flapping through the air like frightened birds —Mary Lavin
33. Twilight came drifting into the room like a shimmering cloud of powdered glass —Natascha Wodin
34. Walls white like a physician’s consultation room —W. D. Snodgrass

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rooms

• pied-a-terre - A small town house or rooms used for short residences (1829), from French "foot on the ground."
• party wall - A wall common to two adjoining buildings or rooms.
• lobby - One of its early meanings was "monastic cloister," from Latin lobia, "covered way," before it came to mean the passage or waiting area between rooms in a building.
• enfilade - A suite of rooms with doorways in line with each other—or a vista between rows of trees.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

rooms - apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel) suite apartment, flat - a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house