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outroom

outroom noun: an outer room.

Noun

outroom (plural outrooms)

  1. An outer room.
    • If our Artist lodgeth her in the out-rooms of his soul for a night or two, it is rather to heare then believe her relations1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC
    • Bearing that . . . the said Roger Murphey . . . did upon Saturnday [11 Dec. 1731] under cloud of night or uponone or other of the nights of the said month without any provocation most basely and felloniously murder and kill the said Francis Galbreth in an outroom of the dwelling house possessed by...1969, The Stair Society - Volume 25, page 453
  2. A small (but possibly consisting of multiple rooms) outbuilding, such as a shed or sleepout.
    • The household who occupies the outroom may by connected to the main occupier of the premises by employment, but not necessarily so.1963, Oliver James Claudius Francis, The People of Modern Jamaica
    • Then he took her by the hand and led her round the house to the outroom, which he unlocked with great ceremony.2009, André Brink, A Fork in the Road

Examples of outroom in a sentence

  • She turned away before she burst into tears and left the living room for the outroom, slamming the door behind her .2023, Patty Jansen, Beginnings:
  • On the very day that they arrived at our home, we had a disquieting incident involving Adrian, the decrepit old man who continued to live in a small outroom on the property.2021, George E. Eaton, Memoirs: Interlocking Halls of Academe with Corridors of Power:
  • The outroom was a tumble down shed at the bottom of the vegetable garden, where various tools, odd bits of furniture, empty boxes and other fascinating things rotted slowly together.2022, Jean D'Costa, Sprat Morrison:

Forms of outroom

pluraloutrooms

Questions about outroom

What does outroom mean?
Outroom means an outer room.
How do you use outroom in a sentence?
She turned away before she burst into tears and left the living room for the outroom, slamming the door behind her .
What part of speech is outroom?
Outroom is a noun.
What is the plural of outroom?
The plural of outroom is outrooms.

Words near outroom in the dictionary

  1. outrolls
  2. outromance
  3. outromanced
  4. outromances
  5. outromancing
  6. outroom
  7. outrooms
  8. outroop
  9. outroops
  10. outroot
  11. outrooted

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