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room UK US [ruːm], [rʊm] noun [ rooms ]

PLACE

1. <E > countable a part of the inside of a building that is separated from other parts by walls, floor and ceiling
• She's waiting for you in the conference room upstairs.
• She's upstairs in her room (= her private room, where she sleeps).
• figurative The whole room (= All the people in the room) turned and looked at her.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Rooms
2. <E > countable Room is also used as a combining form
• a bedroom
• a bathroom
• a dining-room
• living-room
• a hotel room
• He booked a single/double room (= a room for one person/two people in a hotel).
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Rooms
3. rooms UK old-fashioned
a set of rented rooms, especially in a college or university
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Houses and homes

Collocations:
Types
a breakfast dining guest living shower sitting spare room
• There's a toilet downstairs and a separate shower room.
a common computer conference meeting reading staff room
• You can make a cup of coffee in the staff room.
a changing dressing fitting locker room
• Are there separate changing rooms for men and women?
a boiler control delivery engine store room
• There's usually plenty of paper in the store room.
an emergency interview waiting room
• Take a seat in the waiting room and I'll be with you shortly.
a hospital hotel motel room
• He made a phone call from the hotel room.
an attic back downstairs front upstairs room
• The TV is in the back room, if you want to watch it.
a double en-suite family single twin room
• The hotel has twelve luxurious en-suite rooms.
a private public room
• She was moved from the intensive care unit to a private room.
Adjectives
an adjacent adjoining separate room
• John snores so badly that we've started sleeping in separate rooms.
a cold crowded dark darkened old small smoke-filled room
• Only a few coals glowed in the darkened room.
a big cavernous empty high-ceilinged huge large room
• I'll take the large room with the balcony, if I may.
a clean comfortable cosy new spotless room
• It was a comfortable room with a TV and an en-suite shower.
Prepositions
across around round through a room
• They looked at each other from across the room.
from in into out of a room
• A small band played as the guests came into the room.
Nouns
a room number service
• What's your room number?
room service
• I'll call room service and get them to bring up some breakfast
the back corner end middle side of the room
• Can you hear at the back of the room?
Verbs
enter leave a room
• She knocked quietly and entered the room.
a room contains
• This room contains original furniture from the seventeenth century.

• Leave the windows open to let the room air a bit.
• The room was dimly lit.
• I think this room has got a lot of potential.
• Hotel guests are requested to vacate their rooms by twelve noon.
• We asked for adjoining rooms.

SPACE

4. <E > uncountable the amount of space that someone or something needs
• That sofa would take up too much room in the flat.
• James took the books off the little table to make room for the television.
• He's fainted! Don't crowd him - give him room.
• Is there (enough/any) room for me in the car?
• + to infinitive There's hardly room to move in here.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Space - general words ↑Areas of land in general
5. uncountable opportunity for doing something
• I feel the company has little room for manoeuvre.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Freedom to act ↑Opportunity

Collocations:
Adjectives
ample enough insufficient sufficient room
• There's enough room outside to park two cars side by side.
Types
head leg room
• There wasn't enough leg room and the seats were uncomfortable.
Verbs
make room for sth
• We'll need to get rid of a few things to make room for the new cupboard.
leave take up room
• That table takes up too much room.
Prepositions
room for sb/sth
• Is there room for me in the car?

• If we push the table back against the wall, we'll have more room.
• Come and stay with us - we've got bags of room.
• Scoot over and make room for your sister.
• We have no room for shirkers in this office.
• Shove over, Lena, and make some room for me.
Idioms: There's no enough room to swing a cat ▪ no room for something ▪ room for doubt ▪ room for improvement

verb intransitive usually + adverb or preposition US
to rent a room from someone, or share a rented room with someone
• At college he rooms with this guy from Nebraska.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Living or sleeping somewhere