Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Room (-s)
room (-s), n. [OE rúm.]
- Chamber or apartment in a building such as a house; a dwelling; a place.
- Space; dimensional extent.
- Tomb.
- Stead; place of another.
- Unoccupied opportunities.
- Parlor.
- Floor [as noted by NW in his etymology.]
- [Fig.] Power of the king.
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