see also BATHROOM, BED, KITCHEN, TOILET, RENT
※ more on doors, floors and windows DOOR, FLOOR, WINDOW
- a part of a building that is separated from the rest by its own walls, floor and ceiling: room
a house with four rooms downstairs and three bedrooms ◎ Tidy your room - it's a pigsty (= very untidy) !
- a kind of wall or structure that divides a room into parts: partition
A thin partition separated one end of the room from the other.
- a room that is joined to another is adjoining
We could hear laughter from the adjoining room.
- a room for one person: single (room); for two people: double (room)
Our new house has two double bedrooms and one single.
※ walls and ceilings
- the mixture that dries to make a smooth, hard surface on the inside walls and ceilings of buildings: plaster (noun U)
I'm going to fill these cracks in the plaster.
- the liquid colour that decorates or protects a wall, ceiling, etc: paint (noun U); to cover a wall, etc with paint: paint sth
The walls were painted pink.
- paper that you use to decorate the walls or ceiling of a room: wallpaper (noun U); to stick wallpaper on a wall: (wall)paper sth
Can you help me hang this piece of wallpaper? ◎ We spent all weekend wallpapering the hall.
- a flat piece of baked clay that can be arranged with others to cover a floor, wall or ceiling, etc: tile; to stick these to a wall, etc: tile sth
bathroom tiles ◎ a tiled kitchen
※ more on painting a room PAINT
※ different rooms in a house| A ROOM WHERE: | IS CALLED A: |
| you sit and relax | sitting room, living room, lounge |
| food is cooked | kitchen |
| you eat meals | dining room |
| you sleep | bedroom |
| you wash | bathroom |
| there is a toilet | toilet, bathroom |
| you read, write or study at home | study |
- a room that is kept for visitors: spare room
- a room (usually rented) in which a person lives and sleeps: (informal) bedsitter, (informal) bedsit
※ other parts of a house HOUSE
※ rooms in other kinds of building
- a room where many people sleep (for example in a school): dormitory
- a room where people sleep in hospital: ward
- a room in a school where children have lessons: classroom
- a room where business and written work is done: office
- a room where you sit and wait for an appointment or a train, etc: waiting room
- a room in a hotel or at an airport where you can sit: lounge
- a room for a prisoner in a prison: cell
※ what you have in a room
- the tables, chairs, etc in a room: furniture (noun U)
a lot of expensive furniture
- to put furniture in a room: furnish sth
Do you like the way it's furnished?
- the furniture and decoration in a room: decor
Those curtains don't go with the rest of the decor.
- the way in which colours are arranged in a room: colour scheme
a red and white colour scheme ◎ We've decided to change the colour scheme.
※ more on furniture FURNITURE
- to fix a picture, notice, etc on a wall: hang* sth, put* sth up
The painting was hung over the fireplace. ◎ Why haven't you put up any of your wedding photographs?
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- if a room or building has enough space for a particular number of people, it can accommodate them
The hotel can accommodate about 100 people.
