SPACIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spacious mean? 

• SPACIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective SPACIOUS has 2 senses:

1. very large in expanse or scope

2. (of buildings and rooms) having ample space

  Familiarity information: SPACIOUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPACIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very large in expanse or scope

Synonyms:

broad; spacious; wide

Context example:

spacious skies

Similar:

big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

Derivation:

spaciousness (spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building))

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of buildings and rooms) having ample space

Synonyms:

roomy; spacious

Context example:

a spacious ballroom

Similar:

commodious; convenient (large and roomy ('convenient' is archaic in this sense))

Derivation:

space (an area reserved for some particular purpose)

spaciousness (spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building))

 Context examples 

There were besides a few dark closets and a spacious cellar.

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

Certainly I had been accustomed to every luxury at Maple Grove; but I did assure him that two carriages were not necessary to my happiness, nor were spacious apartments.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The little tailor looked round and thought: “It is much more spacious here than in my workshop.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Any new property you would find would be spacious, sunny, and likely afford you a view.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

At the rear things were on even a more spacious scale than at the front.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

So that, in fact, you see, if people do but know how to set about it, every comfort may be as well enjoyed in a cottage as in the most spacious dwelling.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

All the broad and spacious corridors of his mind were closed and hermetically sealed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The room was very spacious, lighted on one side by three arched and mullioned windows, while opposite was a huge fireplace in which a pile of faggots was blazing merrily.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The general's improving hand had not loitered here: every modern invention to facilitate the labour of the cooks had been adopted within this, their spacious theatre; and, when the genius of others had failed, his own had often produced the perfection wanted.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

One five minutes brought a note, the next a parcel; and Anne had not been there half an hour, when their dining-room, spacious as it was, seemed more than half filled: a party of steady old friends were seated around Mrs Musgrove, and Charles came back with Captains Harville and Wentworth.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)