Definition of "roomful" [room•ful]

• The amount that a room can hold: a roomful of furniture. (noun)
• The number of people that a room can hold: a roomful of guests. (noun)
• The number of people in a room, considered as a group: The whole roomful gasped when he entered wearing a bizarre costume. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "He was vexed with the levity that had made him call his roomful together on so poor a pretext, and yet was vexed with the stupidity that made the witnesses so evidently find the pretext sufficient."
• "But Yahoo called a roomful of tech reporters to its headquarters in Sunnyvale to [...]"
• "But Yahoo called a roomful of tech reporters to its headquarters in Sunnyvale to say that it's still fighting."