Definition of "room" []

• A space that is or may be occupied: That easy chair takes up too much room. (noun)
• An area separated by walls or partitions from other similar parts of the structure or building in which it is located: the first room on the left; an unpainted room. (noun)
• The people present in such an area: The whole room laughed. (noun)
• Living quarters; lodgings. (noun)
• Suitable opportunity; occasion. (noun)
• Space or extent, esp unoccupied or unobstructed space for a particular purpose (noun)

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• An area within a building enclosed by a floor, a ceiling, and walls or partitions (noun)
• The people present in a room (noun)
• Opportunity or scope (noun)
• A part of a house, hotel, etc, that is rented out as separate accommodation; lodgings (noun)
• To occupy or share a room or lodging (verb)

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• "In some hospitals it is customary to transport the woman from the labour room to a specific “delivery room” at the onset of the second stage."
• "Upstairs were the bedrooms; “mother-and-father’s room” the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a “washstand, ” a “bureau, ” a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic."
• "Still surveying the room, she moves here and there, and, her eyes lighting on the box of flowers, she goes to the door of_ VIDA'S _room and speaks to her."