room
Signification (English)
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- Opportunity or scope (to do something).
- Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
- A particular portion of space.
- Sufficient space for or to do something.
- A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
- (obsolete) Place; stead.
- A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
- (One's) bedroom.
- A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
- The people in a room.
- An area for working in a coal mine.
- A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
- An IRC or chat room.
- Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
- A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
Concepts
de chambre
piéce
Chambre
intervalle de temps
époque des privations
pièce chauffée
lounge
terem
Synonyms
set of rooms
vacant seat
elbow-room
sleeping room
Jewish religious school
dividing wall
inner room
time to spare
covered place
first room
apartment house
assembly room
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ɹʊm/
Étymologie (English)
In summary
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *rūm Old English rūm Middle English roum English room From Middle English roum, from Old English rūm (“room, space”), from Proto-West Germanic *rūm (“room”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmą (“room”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewh₁- (“free space”). Cognate with Low German Ruum, Dutch ruimte (“space”) and Dutch ruim (“cargo load”), German Raum (“space, interior space”), Danish rum (“space, locality”), Norwegian rom (“space”), Swedish rum (“space, location”), and also with Latin rūs (“country, field, farm”) through Indo-European. More at rural. It is ostensibly an exception to the Great Vowel Shift, which otherwise would have produced the pronunciation /ɹaʊm/, but /aʊ/ does not occur before noncoronal consonants in Modern English native vocabulary.
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Phrases
It
was as though a tornado 🌪️ raged in the room overhead .
C'était comme si une tornade faisait rage dans la salle au-dessus de la pièce.