common roomnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkɒm.ən ˌruːm/us/ˈkɑː.mən ˌruːm/mainly UKa room in a school or college where students or teachers can sit together and talk when they are not working
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Parts of buildings: rooms
- antechamber
- anteroom
- atelier
- atrium
- attic
- ballroom
- conservatory
- eyrie
- family room
- form room
- front room
- garret
- gymnasium
- reading room
- reception room
- refectory
- room
- rumpus room
- snug
- vault
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Examples from literature
- At this time I was sitting in the common room.
- On the left were the office, the common room, and the operating theatre.
- The paupers were collected in the common room appropriated to their use.
- The place resembled the common room in a slum lodging house.
- The story provided amusement in the common room for many days.