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WIKTIONARY
room
Adjective
  • ∙ Wide; spacious; roomy. dialectal or obsolete
Adverb
  • ∙ Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent. dialectal or obsolete
  • ∙ Off from the wind. nautical
Noun
  • ∙ Opportunity or scope (to do something). [from 9th c.] now rare
  • ∙ Space for something, or to carry out an activity. [from 10th c.]  transl. uncountable
  • ∙ A particular portion of space. [from 11th c.] archaic
  • ∙ Sufficient space for or to do something. [from 15th c.] uncountable, figuratively
  • ∙ A space between the timbers of a ship's frame. [from 15th c.] nautical
  • ∙ Place; stead. obsolete
  • ∙ A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling. [from 15th c.]  transl. countable
  • ∙ With possessive pronoun: one's bedroom. countable
  • ∙ A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings. [from 17th c.] in the plural
  • ∙ The people in a room. [from 17th c.] always in the singular
  • ∙ An area for working in a coal mine. [from 17th c.] mining
  • ∙ A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage. [from 17th c.] caving
  • ∙ A forum or chat room. [from 20th c.] Internet, countable
  • ∙ Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
Verb
  • ∙ To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant. intransitive
  • ∙ To assign to a room; to allocate a room to. transitive