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COMMON ROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common room mean? 

COMMON ROOM (noun)
  The noun COMMON ROOM has 1 sense:

1. a sitting room (usually at school or university)play

  Familiarity information: COMMON ROOM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COMMON ROOM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A sitting room (usually at school or university)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("common room" is a kind of...):

front room; living-room; living room; parlor; parlour; sitting room (a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)


 Context examples 


Summoning courage, however, and reflecting that it was a public dwelling, in which he had as much right as any other man, he pushed it open and stepped into the common room.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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