Meaning

2 senses
  1. (intransitive)To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.

    Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street.

  2. (transitive)To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

More definitions
  • live and take one's meals at or in

Examples

11381 sentences
  1. Do you have a cheaper room?

    У вас є дешевша кімната? — deniko

    ruУ вас есть комната подешевле? — pandabear

    deHaben Sie ein günstigeres Zimmer? — MUIRIEL

  2. Mary is studying in her room.

    Мері займається у своїй кімнаті. — deniko

    ruМэри занимается у себя в комнате. — sharptoothed

    deMarie lernt in ihrem Zimmer. — Bellinger

  3. It was a very big room.

    Це була дуже велика кімната. — deniko

    ruЭто была очень большая комната. — sharptoothed

    deEs war ein sehr großes Zimmer. — Zaghawa

  4. The room was filled with people.

    Кімната була заповнена людьми. — Anjy

    ruКомната была полна народу. — marafon

    deDer Raum war voller Menschen. — Tamy

  5. The room will be painted tomorrow.

    Кімнату завтра пофарбують. — sadxaka

    ruКомнату завтра покрасят. — vilnat

    deDas Zimmer wird morgen angestrichen. — Wolf

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From Middle English roum (“room, space”), from Old English rūm (“room, space”), from Proto

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”).

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Forms

rooms, rooming, roomed, roomed
Base formroom · to room
3rd person singularrooms
Present participlerooming
Past simpleroomed
Past participleroomed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyroom
he, she, itrooms

Past simpleLesson

all personsroomed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave roomed
he, she, ithas roomed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill room

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • live and take one's meals at or in:board

Word family

3 related words
Relatedroomer

Collocations

12 patterns
  • in the room
  • in his room
  • entered the room
  • into the room
  • the living room
  • clean his room
  • the next room
  • of the room
  • living room
  • in this room
  • clean my room
  • left the room

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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