houseroom
UK/ˈhaʊsɹuːm/
houseroom noun: room or place in a house.
Noun
houseroom (countable and uncountable, plural houserooms)
- Room or place in a house.
- ‘But go thy waies to him, and fro me say, / That here is at his gate an errant Knight, / That house-room craves […].’1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- […] it would make a man mad of our profession, especially to be buz’d in the Ears with your Honesty or Plain-dealing, as if you were turned their Advocate, and went about to perswade us to give them House room.1685, John Dunton, An Hue and Cry after Conscience, London, page 56
- A room dedicated for the use of a particular house at a boarding school.
Forms of houseroom
| plural | houserooms |
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Origin of houseroom
From house + room.
Questions about houseroom
- What does houseroom mean?
- Houseroom means room or place in a house.
- What part of speech is houseroom?
- Houseroom is a noun.
- How do you pronounce houseroom?
- Houseroom is pronounced /ˈhaʊsɹuːm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of houseroom?
- The plural of houseroom is houserooms.
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