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common rooms

common rooms is the plural of common room.

Meaning of common room

Noun

common room (plural common rooms)

  1. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK) A shared lounge found in dormitories, universities, military bases, etc.
    • He was […] none of your free-and-easy companions, who would scrape their boots upon the fire-dogs in the common room, and be not at all particular on the subject of spittoons; […]1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 10.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 289

Questions about common rooms

What is common rooms the plural of?
Common rooms is the plural of common room.

Words near common rooms in the dictionary

  1. common ringlets
  2. common roach
  3. common rock thrush
  4. common rock thrushes
  5. common room
  6. common rooms
  7. common rose
  8. common rosefinch
  9. common rosefinches
  10. common roses
  11. common rue

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