engine room

1. 1.

   a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located

   Synonymsengineering

   Broaderroom

   ship

Questions about engine room

What does engine room mean?

engine room means "a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located".

What is another word for engine room?

Close synonyms include engineering. 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 engine room a common word?

engine 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.