Meaning of "room" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ROOM

Old English rūm; related to Gothic, Old High German rūm.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF ROOM

room  [ruːm]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROOM

Room is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb room in English.

WHAT DOES ROOM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Room

A room is any distinguishable space within a structure. Usually, a room is separated from other spaces or passageways by interior walls; moreover, it is separated from outdoor areas by an exterior wall, sometimes with a door. Historically the use of rooms dates at least to early Minoan cultures about 2200 BC, where excavations on Santorini, Greece at Akrotiri reveal clearly defined rooms within certain structures.

Definition of room in the English dictionary

The first definition of room in the dictionary is space or extent, esp unoccupied or unobstructed space for a particular purpose. Other definition of room is an area within a building enclosed by a floor, a ceiling, and walls or partitions. Room is also the people present in a room.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO ROOM

PRESENT

Present

I room

you room

he/she/it rooms

we room

you room

they room

Present continuous

I am rooming

you are rooming

he/she/it is rooming

we are rooming

you are rooming

they are rooming

Present perfect

I have roomed

you have roomed

he/she/it has roomed

we have roomed

you have roomed

they have roomed

Present perfect continuous

I have been rooming

you have been rooming

he/she/it has been rooming

we have been rooming

you have been rooming

they have been rooming

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I roomed

you roomed

he/she/it roomed

we roomed

you roomed

they roomed

Past continuous

I was rooming

you were rooming

he/she/it was rooming

we were rooming

you were rooming

they were rooming

Past perfect

I had roomed

you had roomed

he/she/it had roomed

we had roomed

you had roomed

they had roomed

Past perfect continuous

I had been rooming

you had been rooming

he/she/it had been rooming

we had been rooming

you had been rooming

they had been rooming

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will room

you will room

he/she/it will room

we will room

you will room

they will room

Future continuous

I will be rooming

you will be rooming

he/she/it will be rooming

we will be rooming

you will be rooming

they will be rooming

Future perfect

I will have roomed

you will have roomed

he/she/it will have roomed

we will have roomed

you will have roomed

they will have roomed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been rooming

you will have been rooming

he/she/it will have been rooming

we will have been rooming

you will have been rooming

they will have been rooming

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would room

you would room

he/she/it would room

we would room

you would room

they would room

Conditional continuous

I would be rooming

you would be rooming

he/she/it would be rooming

we would be rooming

you would be rooming

they would be rooming

Conditional perfect

I would have room

you would have room

he/she/it would have room

we would have room

you would have room

they would have room

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been rooming

you would have been rooming

he/she/it would have been rooming

we would have been rooming

you would have been rooming

they would have been rooming

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you room
we let´s room
you room

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to room

Past participle

roomed

Present Participle

rooming

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «ROOM»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «room» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of room

allowance · apartment · area · board · capacity · chamber · chance · compass · elbowroom · expanse · extent · freedom · latitude · leeway · live · lodge · margin · occasion · office · opportunity · play · range · scope · space · stay · territory · volume

TRANSLATION OF ROOM

Find out the translation of room to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of room from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «room» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 房间
• Translator English - Spanish: habitación
• English: room
• Translator English - Hindi: कमरे
• Translator English - Arabic: غُرْفَة
• Translator English - Russian: комната
• Translator English - Portuguese: quarto
• Translator English - Bengali: ঘর
• Translator English - French: pièce
• Translator English - Malay: Bilik
• Translator English - German: Zimmer
• Translator English - Japanese: 部屋
• Translator English - Korean: 방
• Translator English - Javanese: Kamar
• Translator English - Vietnamese: phòng
• Translator English - Tamil: அறை
• Translator English - Marathi: खोली
• Translator English - Turkish: oda
• Translator English - Italian: camera
• Translator English - Polish: pokój
• Translator English - Ukrainian: кімната
• Translator English - Romanian: cameră
• Translator English - Greek: δωμάτιο
• Translator English - Afrikaans: kamer
• Translator English - Swedish: rum
• Translator English - Norwegian: rom

10 QUOTES WITH «ROOM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word room.

1

Freema Agyeman

I'm terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays, lotions, potions; the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove it I have to sleep in a separate room as I'm paranoid that I'll be taken advantage of as I sleep.

2

Henri Frederic Amiel

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

3

Ian Axel

We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.

4

Nicholson Baker

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?

5

Kate Baldwin

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

6

Bryan Batt

In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.

7

Nina Bawden

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.

8

Andrew Bird

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

9

Lizzie Andrew Borden

I don't know whether Mrs. Borden is out or in; I wish you would see if she is in her room.

10

Abigail Breslin

I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROOM»

Discover the use of room in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to room and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Room (Picador 40th Anniversary Edition)

It has won or been shortlisted for more than a dozen awards (including shortlistings for both the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize) and has sold more than a million copies. Room is the story of Ma and Jack.

Emma Donoghue, 2012

Room

Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it’s the prison where she’s been held since she was nineteen—for seven long years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in that eleven-by-eleven-foot space.

Emma Donoghue, 2010

Room: A Novel

At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years.

Emma Donoghue, 2010

Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting

Essays discuss reason, self-control, self-definition, time, cause and effect, accidents, and responsibility, and explain why people want free will

Daniel Clement Dennett, 1984

Make Room! Make Room!

This sets the premise for Harrison’s novel, and fans of his earlier more comic works may be surprised at the seriousness of this novel.

Harry Harrison, 2010

Standing Room Only: Strategies for Marketing the Performing Arts

Argues that organizations in the performing arts must market themselves to survive, including defining their mission, thinking strategically, and applying basic marketing concepts like product and pricing

Philip Kotler, 1997

Room

Ma and Jack succeed against many odds. The story balances their endurance outside Room with their survival tactics inside. Room is a complex and richly thematic novel told from the innocent outlook and perspective of the small Jack.

Book Club in a Box, 2011

Room

Years of women, years of abortions. One morning a young patient fails to keep an appointment. Room is the story of what happens to Amelia in the days that follow.

Laurence Fearnley, 2000

Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a ...

Living Room Wars brings together Ien Ang's recent writings on media audiences to ask what it means to live in a world saturated by media.

Ien Ang, 1996

Room Acoustics, Fifth Edition

This edition includes a new list of symbols, and updated sections include the measurement of the impulse response including a discussion of distortions, sound propagation as a diffusive process and scattering by wall irregularities.

Heinrich Kuttruff, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROOM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term room is used in the context of the following news items.

A $590000 makeover for the White House's State Dining Room

Michelle Obama has given the White House's State Dining Room a makeover, seizing an opportunity to leave a lasting impression at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»

White House press briefing room evacuated

Earnest also said the briefing room was the only room evacuated within the White House complex. He also said that, while President Obama was on sight, ... «CNBC, Jun 15»

Tom Hanks' Son Wanted by Police After Allegedly Trashing London …

... Arora International Hotel in Crawley to a report that a guest had caused an estimated £1,200 of damage to a hotel room," Sussex police confirm to PEOPLE. «People Magazine, Jun 15»

Go inside the Dawson's Creek writers' room reunion at ATX Festival

More than 10 years after Dawson's Creek went off the air, some of the brilliant minds behind The WB's beloved series gathered for a writers' room reunion at the ... «Entertainment Weekly, Jun 15»

High-tech fitting room 'smart' mirrors could help you be the fairest …

NEW YORK — Imagine a fitting room with a “smart” mirror that suggests jeans to go with the red shirt you brought in. It snaps a video so you can compare the ... «Dallas Morning News, May 15»

Evan Peters Joins American Horror Story: Hotel—What Is Room 64?!

Series co-creator Ryan Murphy shared the American Horror Story: Hotel casting news on Twitter. "This season, Evan Peters will be waiting for you in Room 64. «E! Online, Apr 15»

Think Tuition Is Rising Fast? Try Room And Board

In addition to steadily raising tuition, but with much less notice, public four-year universities have increased their charges for room and board by 9 percent above ... «NPR, Apr 15»

Planet Fitness Bans Woman for Protesting Man in Locker Room

In Midland, Michigan, a woman's gym membership was suspended after she witnessed a man using the women's locker room and insisted on telling other ... «Breitbart News, Mar 15»

Leonardo DiCaprio's 'The Crowded Room' Is Finally Happening

After years of stalling, The Crowded Room is finally moving forward. Leonardo DiCaprio will star in and produce the film about the first man to successfully use ... «ScreenCrush, Feb 15»

The Old Family Dining Room, Made New Again

The Old Family Dining Room of the White House, Feb. 9, 2015. The room opens to public view for the first time in White House history Tuesday, February 10, ... «The White House, Feb 15»