Room Definition

ro͝om, ro͝om

roomed, rooming, rooms

noun

rooms

Space, esp. enough space, to contain something or in which to do something.

Room for one more, room to move around in.

Webster's New World

A space within a building enclosed by walls or separated from other similar spaces by walls or partitions.

Webster's New World

Suitable scope or opportunity.

Room for doubt.

Webster's New World

Living quarters; lodgings; apartment.

Webster's New World

The people gathered together in a room.

Webster's New World

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Synonyms:
digs
bachelor-apartment
pad
flat
bed-sitting room (British)
one-room apartment
studio
quarters
chambers
lodgings
efficiency apartment
elbow-room
way
suite
study

verb

roomed

To occupy living quarters; have lodgings; lodge.

Webster's New World

To provide with a room or lodgings.

Webster's New World

To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.

Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street.

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adjective

(dialectal or obsolete) Wide; spacious; roomy.

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adverb

(nautical) Off from the wind.

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Other Word Forms of Room

Noun

Singular:

room

Plural:

rooms

Origin of Room

From Middle English roum, rom, rum, from Old English rÅ«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 *rÅ«maz (“roomy, spacious"), from Proto-Indo-European *rowÉ™- (“free space"). Cognate with Scots roum (“spacious, roomy"), Dutch ruim (“roomy, spacious, wide"), Danish rum (“wide, spacious"), Icelandic rúmur (“spacious").

From Wiktionary
From Middle English roum, from Old English rÅ«m (“room, space"), from Proto-Germanic *rÅ«mÄ… (“room"), from Proto-Indo-European *rowÉ™- (“free space"). Cognate with Low German Ruum, Dutch ruim (“space"), German Raum (“space, interior space"), Danish rum (“space, locality"), Norwegian rom (“space"), Swedish rum (“space, location"), and also with Latin rÅ«s (“country, field, farm") through Indo-European. More at rural.

From Wiktionary
From Middle English rome, from Old English rÅ«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", adv).

From Wiktionary
Apparently an exception to the Great Vowel Shift, which otherwise would have produced the pronunciation /ɹaÊŠm/, but /aÊŠ/ does not occur before noncoronal consonants in Modern English.

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Middle English roum from Old English rūm reuə- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition