# room

Pronunciation: US say "ROOM" /ɹum/; UK say "RUUM" /ɹʊm/

## Noun

1. A separate part of a building enclosed by walls, a floor, and a ceiling, such as the bedroom that belongs to a particular person.
   - Simple: One of the separate spaces inside a building, with its own walls, such as your bedroom.
   - _She unlocked the room and set her bags down on the bed._
   - _Most rooms in the old hotel still had working fireplaces._
2. Space that is free or available for something, or for doing something; in older use, a particular stretch of space.
   - Simple: Empty space that you can use for something.
   - _The closet has plenty of room for winter coats._
   - _Move the couch back to make room for dancing._
3. Sufficient scope or opportunity for something, or to do something.
   - Simple: Enough chance or freedom to do or have something.
   - _The budget gives us room to experiment with new ideas._
   - _Her careful argument left no room for doubt._
4. The group of people gathered in a room, considered together as one body.
   - Simple: All the people who are together in one room.
   - _The speaker asked the room to raise their hands._
   - _A single sharp question can change the mood of an entire room._
5. An online space, such as on IRC or a chat service, where people exchange messages.
   - Simple: An online place where people send messages to chat together.
   - _Hundreds of users crowded into the room during the live event._
   - _He moderated a busy room where coders traded tips._
7. A set of rooms lived in by someone; a person's lodgings.
   - Simple: The set of rooms where someone lives, often rented from another person.
   - _He kept rooms above the bakery for nearly a decade._
   - _After the war he took rooms in a quiet street near the British Museum._
10. An amount of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
   - Simple: Enough furniture to fill or furnish a single room.
   - _The warehouse shipped a full room of furniture to each new tenant._
   - _When her aunt downsized, she gave us an entire room of furniture, sofa and all._

## Verb

6. To live somewhere, especially as a boarder or tenant.
   - Simple: To live somewhere as a renter or lodger.
   - _Students often room together to save money on rent._
   - _He decided to room above the tavern for the winter._
8. To assign someone to a room, or allocate a room to a person.
   - Simple: To put someone in a room, or give them a room to use.
   - _The hospital had to room the two patients in separate wings._
   - _The hotel roomed the wedding party on the same floor._

## Noun

9. In old use, a place or position, such as an office or rank, or the place of someone another person stands in for. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: An old use meaning a place, job, or position, or someone else's place.
13. A deep blue dye; an obsolete spelling of roum. *(obsolete)* — Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”).
   - Simple: A dark blue dye. It is an old spelling of roum that is no longer used.

## Adjective

11. Wide and spacious; offering plenty of space. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Having lots of space inside, wide and roomy.

## Adverb

12. Far away or far apart, or extending over a wide space. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Far away, or with a wide space in between.

## Other meanings

- (noun) A wider part of a cave, larger than the passages that connect to it.
- (adverb) In sailing, away from the wind; on a course steered off the wind's direction.
- (noun) The gap left between adjacent timbers in a ship's frame.
- (noun) A working area within a coal mine where coal is cut and extracted.

## Origin

**Meanings 1–10** — From Middle English roum, from Old English rūm ("room, space"), going back through Proto-West Germanic *rūm and Proto-Germanic *rūmą to a Proto-Indo-European root. It is related to Dutch ruim ("cargo hold"), German Raum ("space, room"), and the Scandinavian words for space, and, through Indo-European, even to Latin rūs ("country, field").
**Meaning 11** — From Middle English roum, from Old English rūm ("roomy, spacious, ample"), from Proto-Germanic *rūmaz ("roomy, spacious"), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "free space." It is related to Dutch ruim, Danish rum, and Icelandic rúmur, all meaning "spacious."
**Meaning 12** — From Middle English rome, from Old English rūme ("widely, spaciously, far and wide, amply"). It is related to Dutch ruim used as an adverb meaning "amply."

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