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common room

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common room
n.
1. A faculty lounge in a college or university.
2. A lounge for use by all members of a residential institution or community.

common room
n
(Social Science / Education) Chiefly Brit a sitting room in schools, colleges, etc., for the relaxation of students or staff
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Noun1.common room - a sitting room (usually at school or university)
front room, living room, living-room, sitting room, parlor, parlour - a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
Translations
common room n (Scol) (staff room) → sala dei professori; (for students) → sala di ritrovo
common room n (Scol) (staff room) → sala dei professori; (for students) → sala di ritrovo


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The dead languages were taught with such thoroughness that an old boy seldom thought of Homer or Virgil in after life without a qualm of boredom; and though in the common room at dinner one or two bolder spirits suggested that mathematics were of increasing importance, the general feeling was that they were a less noble study than the classics.
There is one way of making a common room full of invisible, overpowering poison: turning on the gas--the crime of a white man.
Arthur Clennam would have been little disposed to linger in bed, though his bed had been in a more private situation, and less affected by the raking out of yesterday's fire, the kindling of to- day's under the collegiate boiler, the filling of that Spartan vessel at the pump, the sweeping and sawdusting of the common room, and other such preparations.
 
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