room

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A space that is or may be occupied: That easy chair takes up too much room.
2. n. An area separated by walls or partitions from other similar parts of the structure or building in which it is located: the first room on the left; an unpainted room.
3. n. The people present in such an area: The whole room laughed.
4. n. Living quarters; lodgings.
5. n. Suitable opportunity; occasion.
6. v. To occupy a room; lodge.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Wide; spacious; roomy.
2. Far; at a distance; wide, in space or extent; in nautical use, off from the wind.
3. n. Space; compass; extent of space, great or small: as, here is room enough for an army.
4. n. Space or place unoccupied or unobstructed; place for reception of any thing or person; accommodation for entering or for moving about: as, to make room for a carriage to pass.
5. n. Fit occasion; opportunity; freedom to admit or indulge: as, in this case there is no room for doubt or for argument.
6. n. Place or station once occupied by another; stead, as in succession or substitution: as, one magistrate or king comes in the room of a former one.
7. n. Any inclosure or division separated by partitions from other parts of a house or other structure; a chamber; an apartment; a compartment; a cabin, or the like: as, a drawing-room; a bedroom; a state-room in a ship; an engine-room in a factory; a harness-room in a stable.
8. n. Particular place or station; a seat.
9. n. A box or seat in a theater.
10. n. Family; company.
11. n. Office; post; position.
12. n. A fishing-station; also, an establishment for curing fish.
13. n. A heading or working-place in a coal-mine.
14. n. The stomach: as, to fill the blubber-room (to take a hearty meal). [Whalers' slang.]
15. n. Synonyms Capacity, scope, latitude, range, sweep, swing, play.
16. To occupy a room or rooms; lodge: as, he rooms at No. 7.
17. n. A deep-blue dye like indigo, obtained by maceration from the shrub Strobilanthes flaccidifolius (Ruellia indigotica, etc.); also, the plant itself, which is native and cultivated in India, Burma, and China.
18. n. Dandruff.
19. n. In coal-mining, a breast; a chamber.
20. n. In salt-making, one of the large stationary pans in which the brine from a salt-well is placed to allow the water to evaporate. The brine goes first to a deep-room, about 12 to 14 inches deep; from that to a lime-room, about 6 inches deep; and from that to a salt-room, about 6 inches deep, from which it is harvested. These rooms are covered over by movable covers during rainy weather. Sci. Amer. Sup., Oct. 3, 1903, p. 23198.
21. n. In wood ship-building, the empty space between two adjacent frames of a wooden ship.

Wiktionary

1. n. Space for something, or to carry out an activity. [from 10th c.]
2. n. Opportunity or possibility to do something. [from 15th c.]
3. n. Reason, cause or opportunity (to do something). [from 9th c.]
4. n. A specific area of space. [from 11th c.]
5. n. A space between the timbers of a ship's frame. [from 15th c.]
6. n. A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling. [from 15th c.]
7. n. With possessive pronoun: one's bedroom.
8. n. A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings. [from 17th c.]
9. n. The people in a room. [from 17th c.]
10. n. An area for working in a coal mine; also, in spelunking, a portion of a cave that is wider than a passage. [from 17th c.]
11. n. A forum or chat room. [from 20th c.]
12. v. To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small
2. n. A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.
3. n. Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.
4. n. Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated.
5. n. Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion.
6. v. To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge.
7. adj. Spacious; roomy.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. live and take one's meals at or in
2. n. the people who are present in a room
3. n. opportunity for
4. n. space for movement
5. n. an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling