ROOMS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rooms mean? 

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

1. apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROOMS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

rooms; suite

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

apartment; flat (a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house)

 Context examples 

Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found either upon his person or in his rooms.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He took us to his house, where there were rooms for us all nice and comfortable, and we dined together.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It quite lights up these old rooms.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Do the servants sleep in these rooms?" I asked.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The evening came, the drawing-rooms were lighted up, the company assembled.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

My rooms are always open to you, and your own shall be as comfortable as I can make it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As to yourself, Mr. Tregennis, I take it you were divided in some way from your family, since they lived together and you had rooms apart?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The offices include all rooms in the physician's office suite.

(Physician Office, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

“Very well, then, we wish to see his rooms,” said the lawyer; and when the woman began to declare it was impossible, “I had better tell you who this person is,” he added.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A communications device designed for use between rooms of a building.

(Intercom Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)