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(obsolete) Chiefly in the plural form ambits: the open space surrounding a building, town, etc.; the grounds or precincts of a place.
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(architecture, historical) In Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, the apartment reserved for males, in the lower part of the house.
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A small room used as an entryway or reception area to a larger room.
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A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.
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(US) A semi-outdoor recreation room, typically an enclosed patio or sunroom used as a sleeping patio before the advent of air conditioning.
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(architecture) A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.
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A house with a party wall at the rear.
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(housing) An apartment located below street level, underneath another structure, usually an apartment building, but sometimes under a house or a business.
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A marketplace, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia, and often covered with shops and stalls.
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(dated or formal) A bedsit.
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A room in a house where a bed is kept for sleeping.
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(Philippines, countable) The use of a bed in a private home, often rented out by the month.
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(Scotland, Northern England) Ben-room: The inner room of a two-room hut or shack (as opposed to the but).
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(India) Initialism of bedroom(s), hall, and kitchen.
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(idiomatic) A forbidden room.
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A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.
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A room with bunks for sleeping.
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A room set aside for playing card games in.
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A private lounge next to a legislative chamber.
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(UK, Cambridge University) A common room.
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Obsolete form of compartment. [A room, or section, or chamber]
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A person with whom one shares a couch.
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(dated, 19th century) A large room in a theater, opera house, etc., where the audience may promenade or converse during the intermissions; a foyer.
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A small separate part or one of the compartments of a room, especially in a work environment.
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A small room, especially a bedroom, typically those small rooms found on the upper floor of a Roman house.
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alternative form of custom house [An official building, in a port, where customs are collected and shipping is cleared for entry and exit]
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Alternative form of custom house [An official building, in a port, where customs are collected and shipping is cleared for entry and exit]
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A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
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The employees who man a door in order to restrict access to a nightclub or similar establishment.
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(Britain, somewhat dated) Any room where visitors may be entertained; now, the living room.
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Alternative form of drawing room [(Britain) A multifunctional room that can be used for any purpose in a palace or castle.]
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Alternative form of elbow room [Room or space in which to move or maneuver.]
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A comfortable room in a dwelling, for frequent leisure use.
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Alternative form of form room. [(UK) Synonym of homeroom.]
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Alternative form of form room [(UK) Synonym of homeroom.]
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A living room; a room in the front of the house which is used for entertaining guests or for special occasions.
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A room for playing games, a rec room
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One of a set of low-rise apartment buildings built among landscaped grounds and often arranged around courtyards that are open at one end.
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(chiefly Canada, US) In many modern homes, a room that combines the roles of several more traditional rooms such as the family room, living room, and study.
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Alternative form of great room [(chiefly Canada, US) In many modern homes, a room that combines the roles of several more traditional rooms such as the family room, living room, and study.]
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An audience member in the cheap section (usually standing; originally in Elizabethan theater).
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(by extension) The English medical profession (especially the private sector) as a group.
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A raised part of the floor of a large room; a dais or platform for a raised table or throne.
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(historical) A room where premature infants are kept and displayed to the public.
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(dated, dialect, UK, US, New England) The main room of a house.
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Alternative form of keeping room [(dated, dialect, UK, US, New England) The main room of a house.]
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(UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada) A building or site open to the public for fitness and sporting activities.
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A room belonging to or used by little boys, particularly their bedroom.
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A room in a private house used for general social and leisure activities.
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Alternative form of living room [A room in a private house used for general social and leisure activities.]
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Alternative form of living room [A room in a private house used for general social and leisure activities.]
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(obsolete) A floor or room placed above another.
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(Australia) A lounge, a domestic living room.
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A room in a house, in which the head of the household sleeps, typically larger and better furnished than other bedrooms.
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(architecture) A gallery on the interior of a building, originally intended to accommodate women.
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Initialism of master bedroom. [A room in a house, in which the head of the household sleeps, typically larger and better furnished than other bedrooms.]
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(travel) a hotel rate that includes accommodation, breakfast and dinner, but not lunch.
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A sitting-room in a big house, usually in the past, where people stayed in daylight only.
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(UK) A traditional house with one room upstairs and one room downstairs.
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A kitchen without walls separating it from the rest of house. Typically, this includes the dining room and living room, and is often collectively called the great room.
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A area of around the size of a parking space, used for recreation or as scenery.
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A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
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A small chamber for a single person.
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Alternative form of pinacotheca [An art gallery (especially a picture gallery)]
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A pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water; a secluded part of a garden.
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A room in a house or other domestic dwelling set up with a pool or snooker table.
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(UK, Canada) An equivalent room near the gate of a college, chiefly used as a mailroom.
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Alternative form of master bedroom [A room in a house, in which the head of the household sleeps, typically larger and better furnished than other bedrooms.]
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(informal) Clipping of recreation room. [(US, Australia, Canada) A room used for a variety of purposes, such as parties, games and other everyday or casual use.]
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(US, Australia, Canada) A room used for a variety of purposes, such as parties, games and other everyday or casual use.
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(theater) A receiving house.
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(Ireland, historical) A room where victims are tortured and murdered.
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(Internet, countable) An IRC or chat room.
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(chiefly UK) A model or part of a showroom etc. furnished to look like a room in a house.
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(idiomatic, psychiatry) A cell lined with cushions used for confinement of a mentally disturbed person.
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Alternative form of safe room [A fortified room serving as a safe hiding place for the inhabitants of a building in the event of a break-in or emergency.]
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A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
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(Southeast Asia) A building that has both retail and domestic use.
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A room that has one single bed.
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A charge added to a per-person occupancy rate that is based on an assumption of double occupancy, as on a cruise ship.
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(Britain) A living-room; a room in a house where people pass the time in leisure.
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Alternative form of sitting room [(Britain) A living-room; a room in a house where people pass the time in leisure.]
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(US) A complex offering sporting facilities.
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Alternative form of streateries; plural of streetery
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(colloquial) The study of streets and roads, in the context of urban planning.
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A room within a larger room.
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A type of house which shares both sidewalls with the adjacent houses, typical of Victorian and Edwardian housing in English cities.
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(chiefly Isle of Man) An abandoned house; a ruin of a building which was once a home.
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(archaic, now chiefly in placenames) A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.
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Obsolete spelling of thorp [(archaic, now chiefly in placenames) A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.]
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A tall residential or office building.
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A relatively larger room or (especially) an apartment that is entered directly, not via an intervening passage or lobby.
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Alternative spelling of well room [A room where a well or spring is situated; especially, one built over a mineral spring.]
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(archaic) A room for retirement from another room, as for example after dining; a drawing room.
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