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# room

noun (room, rooms; room — uncountable for «space»); verb (room — rare, to share a room)

«room» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A room is a part of a building with walls, a floor and a ceiling, like a kitchen or a bedroom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/room/#m1)
2. Room means free space for someone or something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/room/#m2)
3. «Room for» can mean a chance, as in «room for improvement». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/room/#m3)

### In the lessons

a place or an equal group: rooms with some chairs or people each; or space left; rectangle rooms have area and perimeter; phrases «living room», «make room», «no room», «room for one more», «classroom»

### Examples

- The hotel has 20 rooms. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/room/#x1)
- Each room has 2 beds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/room/#x2)
- There are 30 students in the room. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/room/#x3)
- Is there room for 5 more? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/room/#x4)
- Please tidy your room. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/room/#x5)
- Make room for Grandma on the sofa. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/room/#x6)
- The room is 12 feet long and 10 feet wide. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/room/#x7)
- There's no room in the car for the dog. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/room/#x8)
- Our school has a music room. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/room/#x9)
- Your writing is good, but there is room for improvement. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/room/#x10)
- But how light the room was! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/room/#x11)

### Note

A group or a place: rooms × things each. Trap: «room for N more» means space left, not a count of rooms. «Room» meaning space is uncountable: «some room», «not much room».

## In Jewish tradition

Room means a space or lodging place; the ark had many rooms, called "nests" in the Hebrew.

**Interpretation.** Tradition pictures the ark's rooms as pens for the animals and quarters for Noah's family during the Flood.

### Examples

- Is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?' (Torah GEN.24.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/room/#x1)
- She said moreover unto him: 'We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.' (Torah GEN.24.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/room/#x2)
- Make thee an ark of gopher wood; with rooms shalt thou make the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. (Torah GEN.6.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/room/#x3)
- A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men. (Writings PRO.18.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/room/#x4)
- And do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put governors in their room: (Prophets 1KI.20.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/room/#x5)
- God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.' (Prophets 2SA.19.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/room/#x6)

### Note

A group or a place: rooms × things each. Trap: «room for N more» means space left, not a count of rooms. «Room» meaning space is uncountable: «some room», «not much room».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «room» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/room/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«room» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/room.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «room» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/room/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«room» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/room.html) on Mova free.