Room

n.	1.	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. Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. - Luke xiv. 22. There was no room for them in the inn. - Luke ii. 7.
	2.	A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat. If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse. - Overbury. When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room. - Luke xiv. 8.
	3.	Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber. I found the prince in the next room. - Shak.
	4.	Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated. When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod. - Matt. ii. 22. Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven. - Tyndale. Let Bianca take her sister's room. - Shak.
	5.	Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope. There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance. - Addison. Room and space (Shipbuilding) the distance from one side of a rib to the corresponding side of the next rib; space being the distance between two ribs, in the clear, and room the width of a rib. To give room to withdraw; to leave or provide space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated. To make room to open a space, way, or passage; to remove obstructions; to give room. Make room, and let him stand before our face. - Shak.
v. i.	1.	To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together. [imp. & p. p. Roomed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Rooming.]
a.	1.	Spacious; roomy. No roomer harbour in the place. - Chaucer.

Noun	1.	room - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view"
	2.	room - space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around" Synonyms: elbow room, way
	3.	room - opportunity for; "room for improvement"
	4.	room - the people who are present in a room; "the whole room was cheering"
Verb	1.	room - live and take one's meals at or in; "she rooms in an old boarding house" Synonyms: board

room - channel

To dream that you are in a room, represents a particular aspect of yourself or a particular relationship. Dreams about various rooms often relate to hidden areas of the conscious mind and different aspects of your personality. To dream that you find or discover new rooms, suggests that you are developing new strengths and taking on new roles. You may be growing emotionally. To see an appealing or comfortable room in your dream, signifies opulence and satisfaction in life. To see a dark, eerie or confining room, denotes that that you feel trapped or repressed in a situation. *Please see also Bathroom. Or Kitchen,.a leg up, abide, accommodation, accommodations, air space, allowance, ample scope, apartment, area, bed, berth, billet, blank check, board, bunk, burden, caesura, capacity, carte blanche, chambers, chance, clear stage, clearance, cohabit, compartment, content, cordage, diggings, digs, discontinuity, distance between, domicile, domiciliate, doss down, double space, dwell, dwelling, elbowroom, em space, en space, extent, fair field, fair game, field, flat, free course, free hand, free play, free scope, freeboard, full scope, full swing, hair space, half space, hang out, harbor, headroom, hiatus, house, housing, hut, inhabit, interim, intermediate space, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, jump, lacuna, latitude, leap, leeway, liberty, license, limit, live, living quarters, lodging, lodgings, lodgment, long rope, maneuvering space, margin, measure, nest, no holds barred, occasion, occupy, office, open space, opening, opportunism, opportunity, perch, place, play, poundage, put up, quantity, quarter, quarters, range, rein, remain, rental, reside, room to spare, rooms, roost, rope, scope, sea room, shelter, single space, sleeping place, space between, spare room, squat, stable, stepping-stone, stowage, suite, sway, swing, tenant, tenement, time, time interval, tolerance, tonnage, volume, way, wide berth

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