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Room

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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Narrower term 62

Antechamber 76% connected

A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

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Anteroom 76% connected

A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.

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Ballroom 76% connected

A room for balls or dancing.

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Bar 76% connected

A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especi…

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Barroom 76% connected

A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.

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Bedchamber 76% connected

A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in.

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Bedroom 76% connected

A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.

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Belfry 76% connected

A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.

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Can 76% connected

an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.]

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Cell 76% connected

A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.

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Chamber 76% connected

A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.

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Clearance 76% connected

The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance.

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Cloakroom 76% connected

A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.

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Closet 76% connected

A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.

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Clubroom 76% connected

The apartment in which a club meets.

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Compartment 76% connected

One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or a gar…

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Court 76% connected

An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street a…

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Cubby 76% connected

Alt. of Cubbyhole

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Cubbyhole 76% connected

A snug or confined place.

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Cubicle 76% connected

A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.

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Den 76% connected

A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den;…

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Door 76% connected

An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.

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Durbar 76% connected

An audience hall; the court of a native prince; a state levee; a formal reception of native princes, given by the governor general of India.

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Engineering 76% connected

of Engineer

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Floor 76% connected

The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.

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Foyer 76% connected

A lobby in a theater; a greenroom.

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Gallery 76% connected

A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by…

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Greenroom 76% connected

The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.

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Guardroom 76% connected

The room occupied by the guard during its term of duty; also, a room where prisoners are confined.

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Hall 76% connected

A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.

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Headroom 76% connected

See Headway, 2.

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Headway 76% connected

The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind.

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Houseroom 76% connected

Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.

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John 76% connected

A proper name of a man.

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Kitchen 76% connected

A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery.

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Lavatory 76% connected

Washing, or cleansing by washing.

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Library 76% connected

A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.

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Lobby 76% connected

A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby comm…

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Lounge 76% connected

To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.

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Parking 76% connected

of Park

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Parlor 76% connected

A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc.

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Privy 76% connected

Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.

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Rotunda 76% connected

A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for…

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Sacristy 76% connected

An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.

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Saloon 76% connected

A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amus…

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Schoolroom 76% connected

A room in which pupils are taught.

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Scriptorium 76% connected

In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing.

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Scullery 76% connected

A place where dishes, kettles, and culinary utensils, are cleaned and kept; also, a room attached to the kitchen, where the coarse work is done; a ba…

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Sea room 76% connected

Room or space at sea for a vessel to maneuver, drive, or scud, without peril of running ashore or aground.

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Seating 76% connected

of Seat

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Snug 76% connected

Close and warm; as, an infant lies snug.

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Snuggery 76% connected

A snug, cozy place.

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Solarium 76% connected

An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, use…

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Storeroom 76% connected

Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.

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Stowage 76% connected

The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.

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Study 76% connected

A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…

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Surgery 76% connected

The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of t…

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Taproom 76% connected

A room where liquors are kept on tap; a barroom.

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Toilet 76% connected

A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room.

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Vestibule 76% connected

The porch or entrance into a house; a hall or antechamber next the entrance; a lobby; a porch; a hall.

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Vestry 76% connected

A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business…

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Workroom 76% connected

Any room or apartment used especially for labor.

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Area 76% connected

Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.

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Assemblage 76% connected

The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association.

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Chance 76% connected

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.

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Dwell 76% connected

To delay; to linger.

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Gathering 76% connected

of Gather

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Inhabit 76% connected

To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses.

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Live 76% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Opportunity 76% connected

Fit or convenient time; a time or place favorable for executing a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance.

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Populate 76% connected

Populous.

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Position 76% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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Roomer 74% connected

A lodger.

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Roomer 74% connected

A lodger.

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Containing whole 2

Building 70% connected

of Build

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Edifice 70% connected

A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehou…

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Component part 4

Ceiling 70% connected

of Ceil

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Floor 70% connected

The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.

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Flooring 70% connected

of Floor

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Wall 70% connected

A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

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Board 92% connected

A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.

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Way 92% connected

Away.

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