elbow room

Questions about elbow room

What does elbow room mean?

elbow room means "space for movement".

What is another word for elbow room?

Close synonyms include room, way. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elbow room a common word?

elbow 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.