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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Room \Room\ (r[=oo]m), n. [OE. roum, rum, space, AS. r[=u]m; akin to OS., OFries. & Icel. r[=u]m, D. ruim, G. raum, OHG. r[=u]m, Sw. & Dan. rum, Goth. r[=u]ms, and to AS. r[=u]m, adj., spacious, D. ruim, Icel. r[=u]mr, Goth. r[=u]ms; and prob. to L. rus country (cf. {Rural}), Zend rava[.n]h wide, free, open, ravan a plain.] 1. Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room. [1913 Webster] Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. --Luke xiv. 22. [1913 Webster] There was no room for them in the inn. --Luke ii. 7. [1913 Webster] 2. A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat. [1913 Webster] If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse. --Overbury. [1913 Webster] When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room. --Luke xiv. 8. [1913 Webster] 3. Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber. [1913 Webster] I found the prince in the next room. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod. --Matt. ii. 22. [1913 Webster] Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster] Let Bianca take her sister's room. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope. [1913 Webster] There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance. --Addison. [1913 Webster] {Room and space} (Shipbuilding), the distance from one side of a rib to the corresponding side of the next rib; space being the distance between two ribs, in the clear, and room the width of a rib. {To give room}, to withdraw; to leave or provide space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated. {To make room}, to open a space, way, or passage; to remove obstructions; to give room. [1913 Webster] Make room, and let him stand before our face. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Syn: Space; compass; scope; latitude. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Room \Room\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Roomed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rooming}.] To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Room \Room\, a. [AS. r[=u]m.] Spacious; roomy. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] No roomer harbour in the place. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: room n 1: an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view" 2: space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around" [syn: {room}, {way}, {elbow room}] 3: opportunity for; "room for improvement" 4: the people who are present in a room; "the whole room was cheering" v 1: live and take one's meals at or in; "she rooms in an old boarding house" [syn: {board}, {room}] From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: room /rom/ cream