HOUSEROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does houseroom mean? 

• HOUSEROOM (noun)
  The noun HOUSEROOM has 1 sense:

1. space for accommodation in a house

  Familiarity information: HOUSEROOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOUSEROOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Space for accommodation in a house

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Context example:

I wouldn't give that table houseroom

Hypernyms ("houseroom" is a kind of...):

elbow room; room; way (space for movement)

 Context examples 

'You and I must part. You will have no business here. Let it stay, however,' said she; 'give it houseroom till Colonel Campbell comes back. I shall talk about it to him; he will settle for me; he will help me out of all my difficulties.'—And to this day, I do believe, she knows not whether it was his present or his daughter's.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)