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Definition room

Etymology 1

From Middle English roum, from Old English r?m (�room, space�), from Proto-Germanic *r?m? (�room�), from Proto-Indo-European *row?- (�free space�). Cognate with Low German Ruum, Dutch ruimte (�space�) and Dutch ruim (�cargo load�), German Raum (�space, interior space�), Danish rum (�space, locality�), Norwegian rom (�space�), Swedish rum (�space, location�), and also with Latin r?s (�country, field, farm�) through Indo-European. More at rural.

Apparently an exception to the Great Vowel Shift, which otherwise would have produced the pronunciation /?a?m/, but /a?/ does not occur before noncoronal consonants in Modern English.

Noun

room (countable and uncountable, plural rooms)

1. (now rare) Opportunity or scope (to do something). [from 9th c.]
2. (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity. [from 10th c.]
3. (archaic) A particular portion of space. [from 11th c.]
4. (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something. [from 15th c.]
5. (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame. [from 15th c.]
6. (obsolete) Place; stead.
7. (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling. [from 15th c.]
8. (countable, with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
9. (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings. [from 17th c.]
10. (always in the singular) The people in a room. [from 17th c.]
11. (mining) An area for working in a coal mine. [from 17th c.]
12. (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage. [from 17th c.]
13. (Internet, countable) A forum or chat room. [from 20th c.]
14. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
15. Furniture sufficient to furnish a room.

Verb

room (third-person singular simple present rooms, present participle rooming, simple past and past participle roomed)

1. (intransitive) To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
2. (transitive) To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

Etymology 2

From Middle English roum, rom, rum, from Old English r?m (�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 *r?maz (�roomy, spacious�), from Proto-Indo-European *rewh?- (�free space�). Cognate with Scots roum (�spacious, roomy�), Dutch ruim (�roomy, spacious, wide�), Danish rum (�wide, spacious�), German raum (�wide�), Icelandic r�mur (�spacious�).

Adjective

room (comparative more room, superlative most room)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Wide; spacious; roomy.

Etymology 3

From Middle English rome, from Old English r?me (�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).

Adverb

room (comparative more room, superlative most room)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
2. (nautical) Off from the wind.

Etymology 4

Noun

room (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of roum (�deep blue dye�)

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