3. Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber. I found the prince in the next room. Shak.
4. Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated. [Obs.] When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod. Matt. ii. 22. Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven. Tyndale. Let Bianca take her sister's room. Shak.
5. Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope. There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance. Addison. Room and space (Shipbuilding), the distance from one side of a rib to the corresponding side of the next rib; space being the distance between two ribs, in the clear, and room the width of a rib. — To give room, to withdraw; to leave or provide space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated. — To make room, to open a space, way, or passage; to remove obstructions; to give room. Make room, and let him stand before our face. Shak.
Syn.
— Space; compass; scope; latitude.
ROOM
Room, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Rooming.]
Defn: To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together.
ROOM
Room, a. Etym: [AS. rum.]
Defn: Spacious; roomy. [Obs.]
No roomer harbour in the place. Chaucer.
ROOMAGE
Room"age, n. Etym: [From Room. CF. Rummage.]
Defn: Space; place; room. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.