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Meaning of "rooms" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ROOMS

rooms  [rʊmz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROOMS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rooms is 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.

WHAT DOES ROOMS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

rooms

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 rooms in the English dictionary

The definition of rooms in the dictionary is lodgings or quarters, as in a house or building.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ROOMS


Holmes
həʊmz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROOMS

room
room clerk
room divider
room rates
room service
room temperature
roomer
roomette
roomful
roomie
roomier
roomiest
roomily
roominess
rooming house
rooming-in
roommate
roomsome
roomy
roon

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROOMS

assembly rooms
bazooms
bell-bottoms
bikini bottoms
coms
customs
garlic mushrooms
Homs
marriage customs
old Spanish customs
Peano´s axioms
princedoms
Spanish customs
telecoms
Trucial Sheikhdoms
withdrawal symptoms

Synonyms and antonyms of rooms in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ROOMS»

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

Translation of «rooms» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROOMS

Find out the translation of rooms to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rooms from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rooms» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

房间
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

habitaciones
570 millions of speakers

English

rooms
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कमरे
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الغرف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

номера
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

quartos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কক্ষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chambres
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bilik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zimmer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

お部屋
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

객실
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kamar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phòng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அறைகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खोल्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Odalar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

camere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pokoje
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

номера
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

camere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δωμάτια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kamers
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rum
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rom
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rooms

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ROOMS»

The term «rooms» is very widely used and occupies the 3.179 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ROOMS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «rooms» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «rooms» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rooms

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10 QUOTES WITH «ROOMS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rooms.
1
Billy Baldwin
The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.
2
Richard Rodney Bennett
The different parts of my career seemed to take part in different rooms, albeit in the same house. It was just the way things were and I didn't actually think much about it at the time.
3
Yehuda Berg
As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.
4
Kerry Bishe
I went to a Cal Tech party after the 'Facebook' movie came out, and there were kids in dark rooms coding because it was cool again. That movie made it cool to sit in a room at a party and write code.
5
Don Bluth
I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.
6
Erma Bombeck
Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.
7
Erma Bombeck
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'
8
Walther Bothe
The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.
9
Steven Burd
You know that a lot of people go to emergency rooms when they don't really need to.
10
Augusten Burroughs
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROOMS»

Discover the use of rooms in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rooms and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Rooms: A Novel
Micah Taylor, a young software tycoon inherits a coastal Oregon home that is really a physical manifestation of his soul being used by God to heal the man's greatest wounds. Original.
James L. Rubart, 2010
2
The Sixty-Eight Rooms
When Ruthie's sixth-grade class visits the Art Institute of Chicago, she and her friend Jack discover a magic key that shrinks them to the size of gerbils and allows them to explore a collection of sixty-eight miniature rooms.
Marianne Malone, 2011
3
Visions, Trips, and Crowded Rooms
David Kessler, one of the most renowned experts on death and grief, takes on three uniquely shared experiences that challenge our ability to explain and fully understand the mystery of our final days.
David Kessler, 2010
4
Rooms
A photographic tour of some of the world's most luxuriously designed rooms offers insight into the legendary figures who inspired them and includes coverage of such interiors as India's Falaknuma Palace, Pauline de Rothschild's London ...
Derry Moore, Joseph Holtzman, 2006
5
Other Voices, Other Rooms
Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep ...
Truman Capote, 2007
6
Moving Rooms
This fascinating book documents the break-up, sale, and re-use of salvages in Britain and America, where the fashion for so-called “Period Rooms” became a mainstay of the transatlantic trade.
John Harris, 2007
7
Multisensory Rooms and Environments: Controlled Sensory ...
It is the perfect complement to Sensory Stimulation: Sensory-Focused Activities for People with Physical and Multiple Disabilities, also authored by Susan Fowler and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Susan Fowler, 2008
8
The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a ...
For fans of Downton Abbey, this New York Times bestseller is the enthralling true story of family secrets and aristocratic intrigue in the days before WWI After the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in ...
Catherine Bailey, 2013
9
Sound Reproduction: Loudspeakers and Rooms
This comprehensive work considers the whole sound reproduction chain from multi channel audio configurations and the loudspeaker/room system to acoustics and psychoacoustics and the evaluation process.
Floyd E. Toole, 2008
10
Unhomely Rooms: Foreign Tongues and Spanish American Literature
Even as he exposes the cultural fragmentation of Spanish America, Diaz's critical gesture allows strangeness to become an integral part not only of individuals, as Freud argues in "The Uncanny," but also of national cultural communities.
Roberto Ignacio Díaz, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROOMS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rooms is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Netflix, Marriott Partnering to Bring Online Streaming to Hotel Rooms
You can strike your hotel room from the dwindling list of places you can't stream Netflix. The online streaming service unveiled a partnership with Marriott Hotels ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
2
With 10K rooms, world's largest hotel coming to Saudi Arabia
The hotel is expected to stand 2,000 feet tall and feature 10,000 rooms, 70 restaurants, 12 separate towers, four helicopter pads, a bus station, shopping center ... «UPI.com, May 15»
3
Woman says she killed cats because grandchildren wouldn't clean …
Seventy-one year-old Josephine Bell said she killed the cat, and its four kittens, all because the kids wouldn't clean their rooms. The 71 year-old is now charged ... «fox2now.com, May 15»
4
Japanese hotel launches 'crying rooms'
The 12 films available in the rooms have been carefully chosen to ”tug at the heartstrings” and include Forrest Gump, starring Tom Hanks, the South Korean film ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
5
Rooms going fast after mayor advertises Hungarian village for rent
Rooms at Hungary's village-for-rent are going fast. Over 300 inquiries and reservations for 280 guests have been made since Mayor Kristof Pajer last week ... «Fox News, Mar 15»
6
Man videotaped women in area dressing rooms, police say
Man videotaped women in area dressing rooms, police say. Rick Kauffman – Digital First media Sean Moses, right, is led by arresting officer Detective T. «The Reporter, Mar 15»
7
Washington pulls bid to limit homeless access to rooms
A city spokeswoman said the motion filed in District of Columbia Superior Court had been pulled after the city secured an additional 100 hotel rooms. «Yahoo News, Feb 15»
8
Marriott Hopes Small Rooms Are Big Draw
The U.S. hotels will feature 160 to 200 rooms, usually without a restaurant but ... Marriott plans an average daily room rate of around $240 for Moxy's New York ... «Wall Street Journal, Jan 15»
9
Lawsuit Challenges Legality of Florida Brewery Tasting Rooms
Retail tasting rooms in Florida breweries are coming under fire again. This time, it's the Florida Independent Spirits Association filing a petition with the state ... «New Times Broward-Palm Beach, Jan 15»
10
Facebook 'Rooms' Update Helps You Boost Engagement
Last month, Facebook unveiled Rooms, the social network's version of message boards and discussion forums. The company issued its first update to the ... «Business News Daily, Nov 14»

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