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standing room

standing room noun: space in a public area, e.g. on public transport or at a sports or entertainment venue, for people to stand.

Noun

standing room (uncountable)

  1. Space in a public area, e.g. on public transport or at a sports or entertainment venue, for people to stand
    • The bus was packed, and all standing room was taken.
    • The cars will have standing room so that they can handle heavy in-town traffic on the tunnel sections of the Metropolitan and Circle Lines between Finchley Road and Aldgate.1958 March, “Notes and News: New Metropolitan Line Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 212

standing room meaning in Tamil

standing room in Tamil

நிற்க இடம்

Forms of standing room

alternative formstanding-room

Words formed from standing room

Questions about standing room

What does standing room mean?
Standing room means space in a public area, e.g. on public transport or at a sports or entertainment venue, for people to stand.
What is standing room in Tamil?
Standing room in Tamil is நிற்க இடம். See Standing room meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is standing room?
Standing room is a noun.

Words near standing room in the dictionary

  1. standing pat
  2. standing rib
  3. standing ribs
  4. standing rigging
  5. standing riggings
  6. standing room
  7. standing room only
  8. standing rule
  9. standing rules
  10. standing Sam
  11. standing seam

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Adapted from Wiktionary: standing room (page history and authors); standing room (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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