ROOM
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Room (r&oō_;m), n. [OE. roum, rum, space, AS. r&ū;m; akin to OS., OFries. & Icel. r&ū;m, D. ruim, G. raum, OHG. r&ū;m, Sw. & Dan. rum, Goth. r&ū;ms, and to AS. r&ū;m, adj., spacious, D. ruim, Icel. r&ū;mr, Goth. r&ū;ms; and prob. to L. rus country (cf. Rural), Zend rava&ndot_;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.
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Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
Luke xiv. 22.
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There was no room for them in the inn.
Luke ii. 7.
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2. A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.
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If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse.
Overbury.
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When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room.
Luke xiv. 8.
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3. Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.
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I found the prince in the next room.
Shak.
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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.]
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When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod.
Matt. ii. 22.
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Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven.
Tyndale.
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Let Bianca take her sister's room.
Shak.
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5. Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.
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There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance.
Addison.
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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.
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Shak.
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Syn. -- Space; compass; scope; latitude.
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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.
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Room, a. [AS. r&ū;m.] Spacious; roomy. [Obs.]
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No roomer harbour in the place.
Chaucer.
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