room1 nounroom2 verb
roomroom1 /ruːm, rʊm/ ●●● S1 W1 noun 
WORD ORIGINroom1
Origin:
Old English rumEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Amanda, can you clean up your room, please?
- Do you have room for this in your bag?
- He didn't think he had room to pass the car in front.
- Leave room for people to get by.
- There isn't any more room in the closet.
- They had no room to spare in their car, so we had to take a taxi.
- We're on the eighth floor, room 804.
- We can't sit there, there's not enough room.
- He played in his room with the toys, alone.
- I stood in our living room, surrounded by adults, my eyes squeezed closed.
- I went back to my room, trying to forget about my brother.
- In the darkness of that room, I cried for Induk.
- My father sits in the livingroom in front of the television, my brothers in the dining room in silence.
- So grindingly horrible it could clear any room anywhere any time.
- So she stopped off at her floor and hurried along to her room.
- The library consisted of two rooms, but the only entry to the inner room was through the outer.
Longman Language Activatorwhen you have the chance to do something
a situation in which it is possible for you to do something enjoyable, useful, or exciting, or something that you want to do: chance to do something: · I never got the chance to thank him for all his help.· It's a beautiful building - you should go and see it if you have a chance.give somebody a/the chance to do something: · I wish he'd just give me the chance to explain.take the chance to do something (=use a chance when you have it): · You should take the chance to travel while you are still young.chance for somebody to do something: · "Back to School Night" will be a chance for parents to meet their child's teacher.somebody's last chance (=when you will not have another chance): · It was her last chance to see him before she left town.
a chance to do something, especially something that is important or useful to you, or something that you want to do very much: · It was too good an opportunity to pass up.opportunity to do something: · All he needs is an opportunity to show his ability.opportunity of doing something: · After they had refused him the opportunity of improving his position, he resigned.opportunity for somebody to do something: · We see this as an exciting opportunity for our companies to work together.have an/the opportunity (to do something): · She was delighted to have an opportunity to talk with someone who shared her interest in classical music.equal opportunities (=the same opportunities as other people): · All over the world women are demanding equal opportunities.
informal a sudden or unexpected chance to do something, especially to be successful in your job: · Gary wants to work in television. He's just waiting for a break.lucky break: · Seeing that advertisement in the paper was a lucky break for me.big break: · Nimoy's big break in television came in the mid-'60s, when he won the role of Spock on "Star Trek".
· I got a grant from my university to study in the USA for a year. It's a golden opportunity!a golden opportunity (for somebody) to do something · The management course is being paid for by the company and it's a golden opportunity to improve your skills.
the chance to do something very exciting or important that you might never be able to do again: · This job is the chance of a lifetime. You'd be a fool not to take it.· If you don't hurry up and make a decision, you could miss the chance of a lifetime.
a chance to do things you want to do, in the way that you want to do them. Scope is more formal than room: · He refused the post because he felt it didn't offer him much scope.room/scope for: · There will always be room for debate and disagreement in this class.· I have two jobs, which doesn't leave much room for socializing.· Despite our recent success, there is still scope for improvement.room/scope to do something: · We've left the course deliberately vague, so there's room to concentrate on your particular areas of interest.· Better paid labour means greater scope to increase the company's profits.
the chance of being successful at something in the future, especially your job: · He had no job, no family, no home, no prospects.· Employers are now offering more jobs with quality training and excellent career prospects.prospects for: · The prospects for an alliance between the two nations do not look good.
the chance to do something: possibility for: · The possibilities for improvement are endless.· We need to investigate all possibilities for helping these children.
to give someone an opportunity to do something, for example the opportunity to do a particular job: · My experience in the Peace Corps really opened doors for me when I started looking for a job.· Alice Coachman's Olympic success opened the door for generations of African-American track athletes.
space an empty area that can be used or filled by things or people: · I wish we had more space in our office.· There's a space on the form where you write the name of your school.space for: · We don't have enough space for all our furniture.space to do something: · Could you find me a space to store these boxes in?storage/closet/disk etc space: · Our apartment is small, and doesn't have much storage space.living/parking space: · Tens of thousands of acres of farmland are swallowed up each year by developers seeking living space for the city's fast-growing population.office space: · We help corporations to relocate, and give them advice on how to maximize office space.empty space: · Where Marion's photo had once been was now an empty space.green (=space where there are grass and trees): · The city would be unbearable in the summer without its green spaces. open space (=space where there are no buildings): · London's parks and open spaces· the wide open spaces of the American West
enough space available to put things in, or to use for a particular purpose: · We can't sit there, there's not enough room.have room for: · Do you have room for this in your bag?leave room for (=make sure there is enough room for): · Leave room for people to get by.room to do something: · He didn't think he had room to pass the car in front.room to spare (=some room available): · They had no room to spare in their car, so we had to take a taxi.
space for your legs, especially in a vehicle: · I enjoy flying Air Canada, because they give you plenty of leg room.
informal space to move or work easily: · They stood in the crowd, fighting for elbow room.· In October the museums and art galleries are less crowded, and there's more elbow room in restaurants.
also floor space the area of the floor of a room, especially the area that can be used: · The workshop is quite big but there's not much floorspace.· There was just enough floor space for a desk, a chair, and a filing cabinet.
to provide space for something to remove or move someone or something in order to provide space for another person or thing: make room for: · The theater was torn down in the early '80s, to make room for the Horton Plaza Shopping Center. · The campers made room for us around the fire.· There are two more people coming -- can you make room for them to sit down?
to move things, especially things that were untidy, to provide a space for something: · She cleared a space on her desk to put her computer.· The gardener was clearing a space so he could plant the young seedlings.
if a crowd makes way for someone or something, it divides to make a space for that person or thing to pass: · If you can all make way please, so we can get through.make way for: · The onlookers stepped back to make way for the ambulance to pass.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
Someone was laughing in the next room (=the one beside the one you are in). the doctor’s waiting room a three-room apartment I hope there’s going to be enough room in the fridge. My suitcase was so full I didn’t have room for anything else. I’m trying to make room for a vegetable garden in the backyard. Step back, leave room for people to get past. The old wardrobe took up too much room. There’s little room for innovation. The evidence was clear, and there was little room for doubt. Children need to have room to develop their natural creativity. Make room in your day for exercise. The whole room started singing ‘Happy Birthday’.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She found ample room for her things in the wardrobe. a small attic room This deal should give the company some extra breathing room before its loans are due. Despite yesterday’s win, there is clearly no room for complacency if the team want to stay top of the league. Sam stood up and paced the floor, deep in thought. a recreation area for children to play in There was standing room only (=no seats were left) in the courthouse. a suite of rooms for palace guests old books that were taking up space in the office
Someone was laughing in the next room (=the one beside the one you are in). the doctor’s waiting room a three-room apartment (=a room in a hotel for one person or for two) I’d like to book a double room for two nights.
I’d like to book a double room for two nights. I hope there’s going to be enough room in the fridge. My suitcase was so full I didn’t have room for anything else. I’m trying to make room for a vegetable garden in the backyard. Step back, leave room for people to get past. The old wardrobe took up too much room. (=space for your legs or head in a vehicle)
There’s little room for innovation. The evidence was clear, and there was little room for doubt. British English, room for maneuver American English (=the possibility of changing what you do or decide) Teachers feel they have little room for manoeuvre when the curriculum is so demanding.
Teachers feel they have little room for manoeuvre when the curriculum is so demanding. Children need to have room to develop their natural creativity. Make room in your day for exercise. The whole room started singing ‘Happy Birthday’. She found ample room for her things in the wardrobe. a small attic room· Ross found a good hotel and booked a room.
· The house has a large kitchen and a breakfast room.
This deal should give the company some extra breathing room before its loans are due.· The bedroom carpet was cream.
· Harry glanced at the kitchen clock and saw that he was late.
Despite yesterday’s win, there is clearly no room for complacency if the team want to stay top of the league. (=the possibility that people will disagree about something)· There is room for disagreement about how much independence to give children.
· Other facilities in the hotel include a fitness room and a sauna.
· Their home is a humble two-room flat.
· nurses working on hospital wards
· She was watching TV in her hotel room.
(=the possibility that something could be done better)· There's room for improvement in the way the tickets are sold.
· There's a washing machine in the laundry room.
(also a lecture theatre British English)· The lecture hall was packed.
(=someone you share a house, room etc with)
(=have a possibility that things might get better)· There is little room for optimism in the current financial situation.
Sam stood up and paced the floor, deep in thought. a recreation area for children to play in (=the room where a sick person is)· She had spent the last hour in her mother’s sick room.
British English (=a room for teachers in a school)· I usually have a coffee in the staff room before school starts.
There was standing room only (=no seats were left) in the courthouse. a suite of rooms for palace guests· They were chatting around the kitchen table.
old books that were taking up space in the office· Store the wine at room temperature.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· In my father's house, I took the back room.· In spite of the circumstances, the mood there in the back room was far from somber, though.· Fights can take place anywhere, from the back room of a pub to a municipal hall.· Foaming schooners, free lunch, fish fry Fridays, poker in the back room, arguments settled in the alley.· She was in a cot in the back room with a row of night-lights set along the floor.· The other four victims found in the back room or office were nude.· The vicar left his position near the soldier, and disappeared into a back room.· Most of the girls were already in the back room smoking with Coughlin.
· All the comfortable rooms sleep two and are of a high standard with private shower and W.C; most have a balcony.· Economy hotels offer clean, comfortable rooms and front desk services without costly extras like restaurants and room service.· We visited one day in her comfortable room at the Research Center.· They saw a warm, comfortable room with a good fire burning in the fireplace and a few papers on the big table.· There is a comfortable sitting room, with beams and an inglenook fireplace with bricks worn down by centuries of knife sharpening.· The comfortable rooms all enjoy an en-suite shower/WC.· The kitchen was a homely, comfortable room.
· The medical staff dining room was almost empty, and the last group of people were just leaving.· He looked over the women in the ship's dining room, just checking, a few glanced his way.· Access to the dining room in the north-east corner of the main block was then made via a short flight of stairs.· He was like a kid making his camp under the dining room table with some blankets and pillows.· Ensure that cutlery which has been cleaned using chemicals gets a thorough washing before going back into the dining room.· Fifteen serving staff work in the main refectory with four waitresses in the staff dining room.· Are you going to eat in the living room, dining room or kitchen?
· Patrick followed Ben Travers into his front room.· Roland Major sat in the middle of the front room that had already been cleaned and refused to help.· I went back into the scullery and opened the adjoining door to the front room.· The front room was full of everything front rooms were full of when they had the sale after the Festival of Britain.· When we got there she was lying in the front room.· An example is one of the strip buildings at Sea Mills, which contained a number of ovens in the front room.· Would it look more natural to have his father kneeling in the front room?· The resort is a short bus ride away and shops and cafés are nearby. Front rooms are larger.
· She opened the door to the living room.· Their gold band design on ivory, white, and black backgrounds is very well suited to living room areas.· Designer blasts from the past carefully chosen to look nice in a west London living room.· Willie would return from school to find the living room filled with the musky perfume of freshly-cut branches burning in the range.· The main living rooms downstairs have low ceilings and are wood beamed.· Pausing outside his living room door, he switched on the hall light and crouched down on his knees.· Do they need to look equally at home in kitchen, dining room or living room?· The damp was creeping into the living room.
· Supplements per person per night: Single room £12.40.· Supplements per person per night: No single room supplements.· Supplements per person per night: Single room 11 Jul-4 Sep £9.75, All other times £13.25.
· There was movement in his sitting room, in his kitchen.· The sitting room had shabby chintz furniture, and faded curtains in the long window alcove.· A gilt harp sits in the bay window of the sitting room.· There was nothing, not even that hotel sitting room, to compare.· He looked round his sitting room.· Facilities include a cosy sitting room where drinks are served, and a sun terrace.· There were 8 kitchens, 19 bathrooms, 24 toilets, 11 dining rooms, 17 bedrooms and 21 sitting rooms.· Lunch went on past three o'clock, when they went to the sun-filled sitting room with coffee and cigars.
· We had tried cycling, skipping and jogging and we both had an exercise bike in the spare room.· Every spare room became a coveted rental unit.· He had left the fire on in the spare room.· Friends offered to let me stay in a spare room or on a couch.· Back in the spare room there were problems.· We must furnish our spare room at once if this sort of thing is to happen often.· Gyggle would store me in a spare room of the hospital and keep me under twenty-four-hour observation while I was unconscious.· For years, teachers relied on using spare rooms in the Park hospital building.
NOUN· They get summoned into the conference room.· For years, the supervisors have shared bathrooms and conference rooms and worked in cramped offices.· He smells of conference rooms and courtrooms.· The meeting took place a few days later in a hotel conference room.· In addition to the daily service there are functions in a main function suite and in conference rooms on every floor.· The massage takes place in conference rooms, where employees relax in massage chairs.· Large sliding doors open from the oak-floored corridor in the pavilion into the conference rooms.· The group assembled in the marble-lined conference room for detailed discussions about the columns for the arcade.
· In the immediate vicinity, sensitive monitors relay readings back to the central control room.· Unlike radio, the anchor / readers do not have to be in eye contact with the control room.· The competition, in its eighth year, was organised by Wytch Farm control room operator Dave Handley.· You see engineers in the control room.· A face forced its way through the hatch which led from the control room.· Most astronomers are enclosed in observing cages or in control rooms for most of the time they are observing.· A control room operator at Dimlington, he has followed motor racing for years.· The floor manager is the human lifeline between the talent on the set and the control room.
· If chest pain occurs report immediately to nearest emergency room.· At Massachusetts General, William Tisdale was a second-year medical resident in the emergency room.· A 33-year-old man was brought to the emergency room in coma.· They were also asked how much total waiting time elapsed between triage and departure from the emergency room.· In the emergency room he appeared deeply comatose: his eyes were closed and he did not react to noxious stimuli.· I made my way through a long corridor toward the emergency room.· Now, with abortion illegal, it was far more dangerous, and many victims ended in hospital emergency rooms.· It was too quiet for an emergency room, I thought.
· Rex rampant, I thought later in their guest room.· We removed our gear from our bikes and were ushered into their guest room.· I fetch another from the guest room.· He put his handkerchief in his pocket, and looked into the full-length mirror on the back of the guest room door.· The system provides instantaneous online guest room security control.· I took a quick look around, then went straight to the guest room.· Dining/guest rooms Much the same suggestions can apply to a room that also acts as part-time guest room.· One night, hours after Roland and Mimi had gone to bed, Margarett appeared in the garden outside the guest room.
· The first, as I was rapidly discovering in his hotel room, is enthusiasm.· It was your basic small, upscale hotel room.· But a couple of hours later in his hotel room, he knew, he saw the extent of his madness.· Kawai's Trilby Cold comforts of a hotel room: the air-conditioning and fridge join forces for a chummy hum, barbershop-style.· Whaling, Reiniger said from his Palo Alto hotel room, radicalized the black sailors, who traveled the world hunting whales.· So he set the play in a hotel room, and Frank and Betty Spencer were the honeymoon couple who booked in.· In that hotel room in Carlsbad, I wondered what I would want in their shoes.
· Rock music boomed from speakers in the locker room.· At halftime, Oregon up by six, Jess stands alone in the back of the locker room staring her wide-eyed stare.· Privately, some express worries about the effect of picking transsexuals on locker room morale.· Their locker room Monday was as jovial as any could be, especially considering their 2-4 record.· She takes the anger down with her to the locker room, but keeps it close.· She sits alone in the locker room for a long time, dry-eyed, numb, unthinking.· That was plainly evident in the locker room, where Hostetler teetered on the brink of openly losing his temper.· Unfortunately, a row of lockers lined the wall Separating the gym from the locker room, obstructing the view.
· She didn't take him to one of the two formal reception rooms opening off the hall.· Bernstein went back to the locked reception room through an inner doorway.· It offers good size accommodation, benefiting from three good bedrooms, two separate reception rooms and partial gas fired central heating.· He sits in an oversized armchair in a huge reception room equipped with a state-of-the-art video wall.· The house consisted of two reception rooms, each furnished with black oak monstrosities that created a dark and depressing atmosphere.· Tommy, as usual, is whispering to Nico hotly when I come through the reception room.· The reception room was little more than a hall.· The public reception room was not a welcoming sight.
· There is room service and airconditioning.· We can deliver from room service for $ 4 a bag.· Watersports Shopping village All rooms and suites have mini-bar and 24 hour room service.· Economy hotels offer clean, comfortable rooms and front desk services without costly extras like restaurants and room service.· It does not include travel insurance, wine and drinks with meals and room service.· My room service breakfast practically leaped through the door.· These are meals on heels, moving targets, room service.· There is room service but bedrooms have no minibar or air-conditioning.
· Remove about an hour before the guests are expected and fill the pineapple shells, then leave to come up to room temperature.· Cool at room temperature and cut into squares.· Choosing Choose fruit that's just softening; it will soon ripen at room temperature.· To serve, cut into wedges and serve warm or at room temperature.· An air conditioner to maintain normal room temperature is advisable.· Season buffalo steaks with salt and pepper to taste and let them rest for 1 hour at room temperature.· Incubation was performed at room temperature for 30 minutes.· Remove pot from oven and serve right from the pot either warm or at room temperature.
VERB· Anyone entering the room just then would have thought what a very handsome couple they were.· I passed quickly through the foyer, angled left through the large cathedral-ceilinged living room, entered the dining room.· The girl opened a door with a Yale key and they entered a dark room.· The little room could be entered from the living room and from the staircase outside their flat.· On entering a small seminar room, where a meeting is already under way, the show may take the following complex form.· Online host: You have entered the Sports Fanz room.· She ascended the stairs and entered her own room first, but there was no one there.
· Cold glass and cold metal frame filling that room.· The bright yellow light filled the room like sunshine.· You may then proceed with filling the room with furnishings.· The honeysuckle had climbed the back wall of the house and its fragrance filled my old room.· In the transmitter, infra-red is modulated to carry the analogue sound information which then fills the room.· Clouds of steam from the dishwasher filled the room when the going got heavy.· At night he filled the room.· Nobody would be there with the party filling the other rooms.
· When Kee left the room Conway picked up the telephone.· However, the author does not leave much room for ambiguity.· He left the room and in his bed he wept with a violence he had never known before, spasm following spasm.· Feeling thoroughly disquieted, she left her room in a rush.· We leave the room feeling let down and the boss, no doubt, feels much the same.· This does, however, tend to reduce precision and leave room for biases.
· She nodded, all the time moving about the room which was in an incredible confusion.· Faklirti and his family moved into a cement room at the back of the house.· When I move into the living room, some one is waiting.· They moved deliberately around the room, never raising their voices.· All the lights were on and people seemed to be moving about in every room.· After Mrs Saulitis moved into her own room, the sergeant arrived on Saturday afternoons, packages in his hands.· Then I went to work in another factory as a machinist and I moved into a room with the child.· A tall, slender woman moved into the room from the kitchen, wearing an apron.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► there’s not enough room to swing a cat► roomsPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► acres of space/room► charge something to somebody’s account/room etc► the elephant in the (living) room► feng shui a room/house etc► the green room► turn a room/building etc inside out► room for manoeuvre/freedom of manoeuvre
1in a building [countable] a part of the inside of a building that has its own walls, floor, and ceiling: - You did well on the last project, but there's room for improvement.
- In October the museums and art galleries are less crowded, and there's more elbow room in restaurants.
- Let's sit in a booth. There's more elbow room there.
- They stood in the crowd, fighting for elbow room.
- Give each elbow room to display its fronds.
- It can change the climate enough to give people elbow room to do the right things.
- Mr. Illsley Where would Nottinghamshire county council find the elbow room to which the hon. Gentleman referred?
- Oh come, you must leave even me a little elbow room in which to breathe.
- Packed three or four to a closet-sized room, students can come to envy the elbow room afforded sardines and cosmonauts.
- The belt provides vast material resources, vast amounts of solar power, and vast elbow room.
- The little clearing was shielded from the street by the laurels, and afforded him plenty of elbow room.
- There was enough elbow room in this gargantuan aquarium for all kinds of surprises to emerge.
- A single room supplement of £8 per person per night applies at hotels indicated.
- Additional night, single room and upgrade prices are available.
- His own family-seven strong-live in a single room in the house.
- Lounge / dining / kitchen areas with seating which converts to a double or two single beds are required.
- One of the important things to take into account when designing single bed Fair Isle patterns is the length of the floats.
- Supplements per person per night: No single room supplement.
- Supplements per person per night: No supplement in single rooms without private facilities.
- All of the twin rooms and most of the singles have an en-suite shower/WC.
- All the twin rooms are comfortable, and all overlook the attractive courtyard.
- Bedrooms have telephone and twin rooms have a balcony.
- Half board prices are based on twin rooms which can take two extra sofa beds.
- Prices are based on two people sharing a twin room with private facilities.
- Some twin bedrooms which will have a balcony and sea view are available at a supplement.
- Some twin rooms have a balcony.
- The twin bedrooms are airy, spacious and comfortably furnished.
I looked around the room. She nodded toward a man who was standing across the room (=on the other side of the room). Someone was laughing in the next room (=the one beside the one you are in).somebody’s room (=someone’s bedroom) Beth, it’s time to clean up your room.bathroom/dining room/meeting room etc the doctor’s waiting roomone-room(ed)/two-room(ed) etc a three-room apartmentsingle/double room (=a room in a hotel for one person or for two) I’d like to book a double room for two nights. Here’s your key – room 348. → front room, living room, sitting room2space [uncountable] space somewhere for a particular thing, person, or activityroom in I hope there’s going to be enough room in the fridge.room for My suitcase was so full I didn’t have room for anything else.room to do something The museum doesn’t have enough room to show everything in their collection.plenty of room/enough room There’s plenty of room in the boot for your luggage. I’m trying to make room for a vegetable garden in the backyard. Step back, leave room for people to get past. The old wardrobe took up too much room.leg-room/head-room (=space for your legs or head in a vehicle) → elbow-room at elbow1(5)3opportunity/possibility [uncountable] the chance to do something, or the possibility that something exists or can happenroom for There’s little room for innovation.room for doubt/debate/argument etc The evidence was clear, and there was little room for doubt.room for manoeuvre British English, room for maneuver American English (=the possibility of changing what you do or decide) Teachers feel they have little room for manoeuvre when the curriculum is so demanding.room to do something Children need to have room to develop their natural creativity. Make room in your day for exercise.4there’s room for improvement used to say that something is not perfect and needs to be improved: The report shows that there is room for improvement.5there’s not enough room to swing a cat used humorously to say that an area or room is not very big6apartment rooms [plural] old-fashioned especially British English two or more rooms that you rent in a building, or stay in at a college7people [singular] all the people in a room: The whole room started singing ‘Happy Birthday’.room1 nounroom2 verb
roomroom2 ●○○ verb [intransitive] American English VERB TABLE
room
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | room |
| he, she, it | rooms | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | roomed |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have roomed |
| he, she, it | has roomed | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had roomed |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will room |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have roomed |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am rooming |
| he, she, it | is rooming | |
| you, we, they | are rooming | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was rooming |
| you, we, they | were rooming | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been rooming |
| he, she, it | has been rooming | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been rooming |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be rooming |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been rooming |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Simone tagged along in his life, sometimes rooming with him.
Longman Language Activatorwhen you live in the same house as someone else
· For two months I lived with a French family in Paris to improve my French.· What's the name of the guy you live with?· We've been trying to persuade Jack's elderly mother to come and live with us.
to live with someone who is not a member of your family and not your sexual partner: · My brother shares a house with four other students.· Kim and I shared an apartment when I first moved to L.A.
American to live in the same room as someone at college: · Do you remember Diane? I roomed with her at college.· Have you decided who you're going to room with next year?
British /roommate American someone that you share an apartment with, who is not a member of your family and not your sexual partner: · This is Rosalind, my flatmate.· You can't have a party without asking your flatmate first.· My roommate and I aren't getting along very well - I think I'm going to have to move.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She found ample room for her things in the wardrobe. a small attic room This deal should give the company some extra breathing room before its loans are due. Despite yesterday’s win, there is clearly no room for complacency if the team want to stay top of the league. Sam stood up and paced the floor, deep in thought. a recreation area for children to play in There was standing room only (=no seats were left) in the courthouse. a suite of rooms for palace guests old books that were taking up space in the office
She found ample room for her things in the wardrobe. a small attic room· Ross found a good hotel and booked a room.
· The house has a large kitchen and a breakfast room.
This deal should give the company some extra breathing room before its loans are due.· The bedroom carpet was cream.
· Harry glanced at the kitchen clock and saw that he was late.
Despite yesterday’s win, there is clearly no room for complacency if the team want to stay top of the league. (=the possibility that people will disagree about something)· There is room for disagreement about how much independence to give children.
· Other facilities in the hotel include a fitness room and a sauna.
· Their home is a humble two-room flat.
· nurses working on hospital wards
· She was watching TV in her hotel room.
(=the possibility that something could be done better)· There's room for improvement in the way the tickets are sold.
· There's a washing machine in the laundry room.
(also a lecture theatre British English)· The lecture hall was packed.
(=someone you share a house, room etc with)
(=have a possibility that things might get better)· There is little room for optimism in the current financial situation.
Sam stood up and paced the floor, deep in thought. a recreation area for children to play in (=the room where a sick person is)· She had spent the last hour in her mother’s sick room.
British English (=a room for teachers in a school)· I usually have a coffee in the staff room before school starts.
There was standing room only (=no seats were left) in the courthouse. a suite of rooms for palace guests· They were chatting around the kitchen table.
old books that were taking up space in the office· Store the wine at room temperature.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► acres of space/room► charge something to somebody’s account/room etc► the elephant in the (living) room► feng shui a room/house etc► the green room► turn a room/building etc inside out► room for manoeuvre/freedom of manoeuvre
to rent and live in a room somewhereroom with somebody phrasal verb to share a room or house with someone, especially at college: - In October the museums and art galleries are less crowded, and there's more elbow room in restaurants.
- Let's sit in a booth. There's more elbow room there.
- They stood in the crowd, fighting for elbow room.
- Give each elbow room to display its fronds.
- It can change the climate enough to give people elbow room to do the right things.
- Mr. Illsley Where would Nottinghamshire county council find the elbow room to which the hon. Gentleman referred?
- Oh come, you must leave even me a little elbow room in which to breathe.
- Packed three or four to a closet-sized room, students can come to envy the elbow room afforded sardines and cosmonauts.
- The belt provides vast material resources, vast amounts of solar power, and vast elbow room.
- The little clearing was shielded from the street by the laurels, and afforded him plenty of elbow room.
- There was enough elbow room in this gargantuan aquarium for all kinds of surprises to emerge.
- A single room supplement of £8 per person per night applies at hotels indicated.
- Additional night, single room and upgrade prices are available.
- His own family-seven strong-live in a single room in the house.
- Lounge / dining / kitchen areas with seating which converts to a double or two single beds are required.
- One of the important things to take into account when designing single bed Fair Isle patterns is the length of the floats.
- Supplements per person per night: No single room supplement.
- Supplements per person per night: No supplement in single rooms without private facilities.
- All of the twin rooms and most of the singles have an en-suite shower/WC.
- All the twin rooms are comfortable, and all overlook the attractive courtyard.
- Bedrooms have telephone and twin rooms have a balcony.
- Half board prices are based on twin rooms which can take two extra sofa beds.
- Prices are based on two people sharing a twin room with private facilities.
- Some twin bedrooms which will have a balcony and sea view are available at a supplement.
- Some twin rooms have a balcony.
- The twin bedrooms are airy, spacious and comfortably furnished.
I roomed with Al at UCSD.