roomnoun詞源 1/ɹʊm/

• 1

  archaicAn opportunity or scope (to do something).

  • Thou lorde whiche knowest the hertes of all men, shewe whether thou hast chosen of these two, that the one maye take the roume of this ministracion, and apostleshippe from the which Judas by transgression fell, that he myght goo to his awne place.
  • 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

  archaicA 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

  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.
• 5

  nauticaltransportA space between the timbers of a ship's frame.

• 6

  obsoleteA place; a stead.

  • For this purpose I have shown that no acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.
  • A ram was accepted as a vicarious sacrifice in room of the royal victim.
• 7

  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.
  • He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
• 8

  (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.

roomverb詞源 1/ɹʊm/

• 1

  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.
• 2

  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.

roomadj詞源 2/ɹʊm/

• 1

  obsoletedialectalWide; spacious; roomy.

roomadv詞源 3/ɹʊm/

• 1

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

• 2

  nauticaltransportOff from the wind.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• roum