Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Room \Room\ (r[=oo]m), n. [OE. roum, rum, space, AS. r[=u]m;
   akin to OS., OFries. & Icel. r[=u]m, D. ruim, G. raum, OHG.
   r[=u]m, Sw. & Dan. rum, Goth. r[=u]ms, and to AS. r[=u]m,
   adj., spacious, D. ruim, Icel. r[=u]mr, Goth. r[=u]ms; and
   prob. to L. rus country (cf. {Rural}), Zend rava[.n]h wide,
   free, open, ravan a plain.]
   1. Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or
      devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or
      small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes
      up too much room.

            Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet
            there is room.                        --Luke xiv.
                                                  22.

            There was no room for them in the inn. --Luke ii. 7.

   2. A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy;
      a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.

            If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will
            give it for the best room in a playhouse.
                                                  --Overbury.

            When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit
            not down in the highest room.         --Luke xiv. 8.

   3. Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set
      apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.

            I found the prince in the next room.  --Shak.

   4. Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station;
      also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied
      by, another, and vacated. [Obs.]

            When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in
            the room of his father Herod.         --Matt. ii.
                                                  22.

            Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven.
                                                  --Tyndale.

            Let Bianca take her sister's room.    --Shak.

   5. Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to
      act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.

            There was no prince in the empire who had room for
            such an alliance.                     --Addison.

   {Room and space} (Shipbuilding), the distance from one side
      of a rib to the corresponding side of the next rib; space
      being the distance between two ribs, in the clear, and
      room the width of a rib.

   {To give room}, to withdraw; to leave or provide space
      unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated.

   {To make room}, to open a space, way, or passage; to remove
      obstructions; to give room.

            Make room, and let him stand before our face.
                                                  --Shak.

   Syn: Space; compass; scope; latitude.