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room

noun
/ɹʊm/UK/ɹum/US/ɹʉm/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-? Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH-der. Proto-Germanic *rūmą Proto-West Germanic *rūm Old English rūm Middle English roum English room 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”), from *Hrew- (“to tear out, open”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian rüm (“room, space”), Saterland Frisian and Low German Ruum (“room, space”), Dutch ruim (“open space; cargo hold”), German and Luxembourgish Raum (“room, space”), Vilamovian raojm (“room”), Danish and Swedish rum (“room, space”), Faroese and Icelandic rúm (“space, room”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk rom (“room, space”), Gothic 𐍂𐌿𐌼 (rum, “room, space”); also Irish rúsc (“bark”), Manx roost (“bark; peel, rind”), Scottish Gaelic rùsg (“rind; bark; fleece; shell”), Welsh rhisgl (“bark”), Latin rūs (“country, fields, lands; estate, farm; village”), Ancient Greek ὀρύσσω (orússō), ὀρύττω (orúttō, “to dig”), Latvian raut (“to pull with force”), Lithuanian rauti (“to grub, pull”), Belarusian рыць (rycʹ, “to dig”), Bulgarian ри́я (ríja, “to excavate”), Czech rýt (“to dig; to engrave”), Polish ryć (“to dig”), Russian рыть (rytʹ, “to dig; to burrow, mine”), Slovak ryť (“to dig; to engrave”), Slovene riti (“to dig”), Ukrainian ри́ти (rýty, “to dig, excavate”), Central Kurdish ڕێو (rêw, “public hair”), Tocharian A kärpi (“raw, rough; common”), Tocharian B kärpiye (“raw, rough; common”), Sanskrit लोमन् (loman), रोमन् (roman, “body hair; down, wool”). More at rural. Doublet of Raum, a surname from German. The word superficially appears to be an exception to the Great Vowel Shift, which might have produced the pronunciation /ɹaʊm/, but the retention of Middle English /uː/ before /m/ is regular. In fact, /aʊ/ does not occur before non-coronal consonants in Standard Modern English native vocabulary. Some dialects did undergo diphthongization in such a position and the pronunciation /ɹaʊm/ occurs, for example, in Lancashire.

  1. inherited from *(H)rewH-✻ — “to root; to rip, tear”
  2. inherited from *rūmą✻ — “room”
  3. inherited from *rūm✻ — “room”
  4. inherited from rūm — “room, space”
  5. inherited from roum — “room, space”

Definitions

  1. An opportunity or scope (to do something).

    • Nor shalt thou give me room to doubt whether it be necessity or love, that inspires this condescending impulse.

  2. Space for something, or to carry out an activity.

    • He explains they have enough room to stand and lie down, points out the "little cup to brush our teeth", and the place where they pray.

  3. A particular portion of space.

    • If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse.
    • When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room.
  4. ›+ 18 more definitions

    1. Sufficient space for or to do something.

      • There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance.
      • There are major disagreements within the Coalition and politicians always want to retain room for manoeuvre.

    2. A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.

    3. A place

      A place; a stead.

      • A ram was accepted as a vicarious sacrifice in room of the royal victim.

    4. A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.

      • Miss Bingley made no answer, and soon afterwards she got up and walked about the room.

    5. (One's) bedroom.

      • Go to your room!
      • She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
      • ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’

    6. A set of rooms inhabited by someone

      A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.

    7. The people in a room.

      • The room was on its feet.
      • He was good at reading rooms.
      • It was fun to watch her work the room.

    8. An area for working in a coal mine.

    9. A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.

    10. An IRC or chat room.

      • Some users may not be able to access the AOL room.
      • Here in the room we are as one / Together you and me, together you and me / Hours connect / As we switch on

    11. A place or position in society

      A place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.

      • When ſhee that rules in Rhamnis golden gates, […] Shall make me ſolely Emperour of Aſia, Then ſhall your meeds and vallours be aduaunſt To roomes of honour and Nobilitie.
      • Let Bianca take her sister's room.
      • When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod.

    12. A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.

    13. To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.

      • Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street.
      • Even without looking up, I knew right away who it was. It was Robert Ackley, this guy that roomed right next to me.
      • But, then, running into the guy who rooms across the hall from me—in the Paris Metro?

    14. To assign to a room

      To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

      • […] convinced (with no scientific evidence) that they would contract the dread disease by breathing the same air in which the patient was roomed, by touching the patient or even by changing the sheets of a patient's bed.

    15. Wide

      Wide; spacious; roomy.

    16. Far

      Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.

    17. Off from the wind.

    18. Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”).

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at room. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01room02opportunity03occasion04occurrence05change06replace07supply08furnish09furniture

A definitional loop anchored at room. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at room

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA