Word a Day
room
What does room mean?
room (noun): a separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use room in a sentence?
- The rooms were very small but they had a nice view. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce room?
/ɹum/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does room come from?
From Middle English roum (“room, space”), from Old English rūm (“room, space”), from Proto-West Germanic *rūm (“room”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmą (“room”), from Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH- (“to root; to rip, tear”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “room” mean?
a thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud
Not quite: that's what fog means.
a separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling
Right! That's what “room” means.
any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb)
Not quite: that's what finger means.
a bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other
Not quite: that's what cluster means.
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