common room

1. 1.

   a sitting room (usually at school or university)

   Broaderliving room

   United Kingdom

Questions about common room

What does common room mean?

common room means "a sitting room (usually at school or university)".

Is common room a common word?

common room is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.