Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Room or place, in any sense.
- noun Roominess; spaciousness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Room; space.
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- noun obsolete
Room ; sufficientspace for a person or thing to occupy;place . - noun obsolete
Roominess ;spaciousness .
Etymologies
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From Middle English roomth, rumthe, rymthe, from Old English *rȳmþ ("roominess, spaciousness") (compare Old English rȳmet ("room, space")), from Proto-Germanic *rūmiþō (“roominess”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmaz (“roomy, spacious”), equivalent to room (“wide, spacious, roomy”) + -th. Cognate with Dutch ruimte ("room, space").
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Examples
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In wanting roomth to strike, they stoode so neare.
The Battaile of Agincourt Michael Drayton 1597
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