standing room

1. 1.

   room for passengers or spectators to stand

   “there was standing room for thousands more people”

   Broaderroom

   Part oftheaterstadium

Questions about standing room

What does standing room mean?

standing room means "room for passengers or spectators to stand".

Is standing room a common word?

standing 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.