room
(ro͞om, ro͝om)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 or scope: room for doubt.
intr.v. roomed, room·ing, rooms
To occupy a room; lodge.
Synonyms: room, elbowroom, latitude, leeway, margin, scope
These nouns denote adequate allowance or opportunity for freedom of 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; permitting their talents free scope.
These nouns denote adequate allowance or opportunity for freedom of 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; permitting their talents free scope.
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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.
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Rooms
See Also: FURNITURE AND FURNISHINGS, HOUSES
- [An office] almost as severe as the cell of some medieval monk —J. D. McClatchy
- Bathroom, mirrored like a discotheque —Diane Ackerman
- Bedroom … large as a football field and as cold —John Le Carre
- Black bedroom with mirrors … looks like a wet dream from Walt Disney —Richard North Patterson
- The blue and white room was … cold and hollow as an October mist —M. J. Farrell
- The cramped space of the vestibule felt like the inside of a hooded cage —Kenzaburo Oë
- [Small room] done up in moist red velvet, like the interior of a womb —Angela Carter
- Dusty [a windowsill] as a literal Sahara —Tom Robbins
- Entry hall … as impersonal as a hotel lounge —John Braine
- Everything in the room was yellow … it was a bit like having swallowed by a butterfly —Pat M. Esslinger-Carr
- [Wooden] floors as blonde as a movie star’s hair —William Hamilton, National Public Radio, “Morning Edition,” April 15, 1987
- The floor [of room set aside for dancing] gleamed like egg yolk —Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
- A hall that was cool and vaulted like a cloister —Ross Macdonald
- (The little den was now) hideous as a torture-chamber —Stephen Crane
- It [a room] is like a monastic cell —V. S. Pritchett
- The living room was spacious and divided like Gaul into three parts —John Cheever
- Oak floors shone like brown glass —Rebecca West
- On the ceiling the reflection of the waves of the bay outside flickered on and on like conversation —Kate Grenville
- The paint [on ceiling of room] peeling like the surface of the moon —Jilly Cooper
- (In my gray) room, bare as a barn —Randall Jarrell
- Room [small and narrow] … friendly as Death Row —Gavin Lyall
- The room glows like a field of forget-me-nots in the high country —Patricia Henley
- A room is like a cast-off shoe, which holds the shape of its owner’s unique foot —Paul Theroux
- Room … like a cell, except that there were no bars over the one small window —Dashiell Hammett
- Room like a cupboard —Katherine Mansfield
- The room [at a Howard Johnson’s motel] … sat like a young bride … wanting only to please you —Max Apple
- The room was as hot as the inside of a pig’s stomach —Madison Smartt Bell
See Also: HEAT
- The room was as quiet and empty as a chapel —Wallace Stegner
See Also: SILENCE
- The room was filled like a pool with darkness —Josephine Jacobson
- The [empty] room was like a fowl plucked clean —Jean Stafford
- Room … with nothing actually matching anything else but everything living happily together, like the random sowing of flowers —Rosamund Pilcher
- 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
- Twilight came drifting into the room like a shimmering cloud of powdered glass —Natascha Wodin
- Walls white like a physician’s consultation room —W. D. Snodgrass
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rooms - apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)Translations
مَجموعَة غُرَف مُسْتأجَرَه
byt
lejlighed
bérlakás
leiguherbergi
pansiyon odaları
room
(ruːm (in compounds rum) , ((American) ru:m)) noun1. one part of a house or building, usually used for a particular purpose. This house has six rooms; a bedroom; a dining-room.
2. the space or area in which a person, thing etc is or could be put etc. The bed takes up a lot of room; There's no room for you in our car; We'll move the bookcase to make room for the television.
3. a need or possibility (for something). There is room for improvement in his work.
-roomeda four-roomed house.
ˈroomful nounHe didn't feel like facing a roomful of people.
rooms noun plural a set of rented rooms for living in.
ˈroomy adjective having plenty of room. roomy cupboards.
ˈroom-mate noun a person who shares a room with another person eg in a hostel for students etc.
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