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Definition of roomsnext
plural of room
as in chambers
an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall finally had a room to himself when his older brother went off to college

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verb

present tense third-person singular of room

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Recent Examples of rooms
Noun
The Mark Hotel, on Seventy-seventh Street and Madison, was a center of the hubbub, with a hundred and fifty-three rooms and suites booked out to various glam squads. Jane Bua, New Yorker, 14 May 2026 The rooms Six elegant bedrooms have wonderful high ceilings and huge shuttered windows. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2026 There were three, after all, which was coincidentally the same number of espresso machines in our extra-large connecting rooms. Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 14 May 2026 This month, the hospital granted rare access to reporters from the Associated Press, allowing them into rooms that lie on either side of the centerpiece of Les Invalides, a soaring mausoleum that holds Napoleon’s sarcophagus. Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026 The sprawling property is home to 34 rooms and suites, along with seven private villas and another in the final stages of construction and set to open in early summer. Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026 That’s clear from the lobby’s bifurcated color scheme to the rooms themselves. Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 14 May 2026
Verb
The side rooms off the main gallery contain playful areas that everyone from kids to grown adults will enjoy. Jenny Hughes, The Spruce, 9 Apr. 2026 During the news conference, Fullen called game rooms a menace to society that contributed to drug crimes, prostitution and violent assaults and robberies in the city. John Wayne Ferguson, Houston Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2026 Oceanview rooms with a terrace are worth the upgrade, with the floor-to-ceiling windows drawing in every shade of Caribbean blue. Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rooms
Noun
  • All 56 Georgia Senate seats and all 180 Georgia House seats are on the ballot, though Republicans remain favored to maintain control of both chambers.
    Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 16 May 2026
  • Both chambers have a $200 million baseline for conservation easements through the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Rural and Family Lands Protection Program.
    Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 15 May 2026
Verb
  • Opened less than five years ago, M+, Hong Kong’s museum of modern and contemporary art, has just announced a multi-year partnership with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which houses the largest modern art museum in Europe.
    News Desk, Artforum, 18 May 2026
  • Two people were arrested this week after an individual entered an animal enclosure at Japan's Ichikawa Zoo that houses the viral baby monkey Punch, the zoo said Sunday.
    Angeline Jane Bernabe, ABC News, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • The biggest issue in the Democratic primary was the Atlantic Yards project, a multibillion-dollar real-estate-development plan that sought to put a basketball arena and thousands of new apartments in downtown Brooklyn.
    Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • The first would convert the existing 58-room hotel at the corner of North First Street and East Rosemary Street to 58 apartments, planning files show.
    George Avalos, Mercury News, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • Originally designed to target and wipe out cancer by reprogramming the patient’s immune cells, CAR T is now being offered to patients in hundreds of clinical trials for autoimmune conditions like multiple sclerosis, lupus, Graves’ disease, vasculitis, and many others.
    Amber Dance, ArsTechnica, 17 May 2026
  • Reverse charging allows the user to juice up other mobile gadgetry while out and about, and 33-W fast-charging is supported when the phone's cells need a boost.
    Paul Ridden May 17, New Atlas, 17 May 2026
Noun
  • The 18 Americans aboard the ship arrived stateside on Monday after days inside their cabins, before returning to quarantine in facilities designed to house people exposed to infectious diseases.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 17 May 2026
  • Yet in what could have been another existential and very French tale of impossible love, albeit one set predominantly in the cabins of 18-wheelers or anonymous roadside rest stops, Le Gall has boldly chosen to offer up the possibility of redemption.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026

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