[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

room \room\ r=oom, n. oe. roum, rum, space, as. r=um;
   akin to os., ofries.  icel. r=um, d. ruim, g. raum, ohg.
   r=um, sw.  dan. rum, goth. r=ums, and to as. r=um,
   adj., spacious, d. ruim, icel. r=umr, goth. r=ums; and
   prob. to l. rus country cf. rural, zend rava.nh wide,
   free, open, ravan a plain.
   1. unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or
      devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or
      small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes
      up too much room.
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            lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet
            there is room.                        --luke xiv.
                                                  22.
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            there was no room for them in the inn. --luke ii. 7.
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   2. a particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy;
      a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.
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            if he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will
            give it for the best room in a playhouse.
                                                  --overbury.
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            when thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit
            not down in the highest room.         --luke xiv. 8.
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   3. especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set
      apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.
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            i found the prince in the next room.  --shak.
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   4. place or position in society; office; rank; post; station;
      also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied
      by, another, and vacated. obs.
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            when he heard that archelaus did reign in judea in
            the room of his father herod.         --matt. ii.
                                                  22.
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            neither that i look for a higher room in heaven.
                                                  --tyndale.
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            let bianca take her sister's room.    --shak.
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   5. possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to
      act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.
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            there was no prince in the empire who had room for
            such an alliance.                     --addison.
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   room and space shipbuilding, the distance from one side
      of a rib to the corresponding side of the next rib; space
      being the distance between two ribs, in the clear, and
      room the width of a rib.

   to give room, to withdraw; to leave or provide space
      unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated.

   to make room, to open a space, way, or passage; to remove
      obstructions; to give room.
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            make room, and let him stand before our face.
                                                  --shak.
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   syn: space; compass; scope; latitude.
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see also:
rural room and space to give room to make room 

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