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say it: room
room is a noun and verb meaning "an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling". It carries 5 recorded senses.
space for movement
“room to pass”
“make way for”
“hardly enough elbow room to turn around”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for room come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.