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ROOMS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)

Synonyms:

rooms; suite

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("rooms" is a kind of...):

apartment; flat (a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (third person singular) of the verb room

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 Context examples: 

Sooner or later they believed that I should come back to my rooms.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Between ourselves, what little I have is in that box, so you can understand what it means to me when unknown people force themselves into my rooms.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Cross-ventilation occurs in rooms that have windows on opposite sides of a room.

(Wind more effective than cold air at cooling rooms naturally, University of Cambridge)

Using this information, the scientists were able to study obesity and weight gain in women exposed to artificial light at night with women who reported sleeping in dark rooms.

(Sleeping with artificial light at night associated with weight gain in women, National Institutes of Health)

So I have to stay shut up in these rooms all day, and it gets tiresome.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

There were but four rooms in the little house—three, when Martin's was subtracted.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Very; and does Eleanor leave you to find your way into all the rooms in the house by yourself?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She related the subjects of the pictures, the dimensions of the rooms, and the price of the furniture, in vain.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Four bed-rooms and two garrets formed the rest of the house.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Well, Miss Woodhouse, he almost immediately began, your inclination for dancing has not been quite frightened away, I hope, by the terrors of my father's little rooms.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

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