different between room vs rom

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?u?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?um/
• (UK, New England, Tidewater) IPA^(key): /??m/
• Rhymes: -u?m, -?m
• Homophone: rheum

Etymology 1

From Middle English roum, from Old English r?m (“room, space”), from Proto-Germanic *r?m? (“room”), from Proto-Indo-European *row?- (“free space”). Cognate with Low German Ruum, Dutch ruimte (“space”) and Dutch ruim (“cargo load”), German Raum (“space, interior space”), Danish rum (“space, locality”), Norwegian rom (“space”), Swedish rum (“space, location”), and also with Latin r?s (“country, field, farm”) through Indo-European. More at rural.

It is ostensibly an exception to the Great Vowel Shift, which otherwise would have produced the pronunciation /?a?m/, but /a?/ does not occur before noncoronal consonants in Modern English.

Noun

room (countable and uncountable, plural rooms)

1. (now rare) Opportunity or scope (to do something). [from 9th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts I:

     Thou lorde whiche knowest the hertes of all men, shewe whether thou hast chosen of these two, that the one maye take the roume of this ministracion, and apostleshippe from the which Judas by transgression fell, that he myght goo to his awne place.

   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa:

     Nor shalt thou give me room to doubt whether it be necessity or love, that inspires this condescending impulse.

2. (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity. [from 10th c.]
   • 2010, Jonathan Franklin, The Guardian, 27 Aug 2010:

     He explains they have enough room to stand and lie down, points out the "little cup to brush our teeth", and the place where they pray.

3. (archaic) A particular portion of space. [from 11th c.]
   • 1614, Thomas Overbury, Characters

     If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse.

   • When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room.

4. (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something. [from 15th c.]
   • 2010, Roger Bootle, The Telegraph, 12 Sep 2010:

     There are major disagreements within the Coalition and politicians always want to retain room for manoeuvre.

5. (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame. [from 15th c.]
6. (obsolete) Place; stead.
7. (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling. [from 15th c.]
   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:

     Miss Bingley made no answer, and soon afterwards she got up and walked about the room.
8. (countable, with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
9. (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings. [from 17th c.]
10. (usually in the singular, metonymically) The people in a room. [from 17th c.]

    He was good at reading rooms.

    It was fun to watch her work the room.

11. (mining) An area for working in a coal mine. [from 17th c.]
12. (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage. [from 17th c.]
13. (Internet, countable) An IRC or chat room. [from 20th c.]

14. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.

    • When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod.

    • 1848, Henry Walter (editor), William Tyndale (original author), Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures

      Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven.
15. A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
    • 1985, August Wilson, Fences

      “I understand you need some furniture and can’t get no credit.” I liked to fell over. He say, “I’ll give you all the credit you want, but you got to pay the interest on it.” I told him, “Give me three rooms worth and charge whatever you want.”

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:room.

Synonyms

• (space): elbow room, legroom, space
• (part of a building): chamber, quarters
• (part of a cave): chamber
• rm
• See also Thesaurus:room

Hyponyms

Meronyms

• walls
• windows
• doors
• furniture
• wall sockets
• switches
• light fixtures
• appliances

Holonyms

• house
• building
• structure
• apartment
• home
• flat
• hotel
• hospital

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (r?mu)
• ? Kikuyu: rumu

Translations

Verb

room (third-person singular simple present rooms, present participle rooming, simple past and past participle roomed)

1. (intransitive) To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.

   Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street.

2. (transitive) To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English roum, rom, rum, from Old English r?m (“roomy, spacious, ample, extensive, large, open, unencumbered, unoccupied, temporal, long, extended, great, liberal, unrestricted, unfettered, clear, loose, free from conditions, free from occupation, not restrained within due limits, lax, far-reaching, abundant, noble, august”), from Proto-Germanic *r?maz (“roomy, spacious”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewh?- (“free space”). Cognate with Scots roum (“spacious, roomy”), Dutch ruim (“roomy, spacious, wide”), Danish rum (“wide, spacious”), German raum (“wide”), Icelandic rúmur (“spacious”).

Adjective

room (comparative more room, superlative most room)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Wide; spacious; roomy.

Etymology 3

From Middle English rome, from Old English r?me (“widely, spaciously, roomily, far and wide, so as to extend over a wide space, liberally, extensively, amply, abundantly, in a high degree, without restriction or encumbrance, without the pressure of care, light-heartedly, without obstruction, plainly, clearly, in detail”). Cognate with Dutch ruim (“amply”, adverb).

Adverb

room (comparative more room, superlative most room)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
2. (nautical) Off from the wind.

Etymology 4

Noun

room (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”)

Further reading

• room on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• room at OneLook Dictionary Search
• room in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Moor, Moro, Romo, moor

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch room, from Middle Dutch rôme, from Old Dutch *r?m, from Proto-Germanic *raumaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r???m/

Noun

room (uncountable)

1. cream

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch rôme, from Old Dutch *r?m, from Proto-Germanic *raumaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ro?m/
• Hyphenation: room
• Rhymes: -o?m

Noun

room m (uncountable)

1. cream (of milk)

Derived terms

• afromen
• ontromen
• roomboter
• roomijs
• roomsaus
• slagroom

Descendants

• Afrikaans: room

Anagrams

• moor

English

Adjective

rom (not comparable)

1. (proofreading) Abbreviation of roman.

Anagrams

• MOR, MRO, Mor, Mor., O/RM, OMR, ORM, RMO

Aghu Tharrnggala

Noun

rom

1. belly

Further reading

• Barry Alpher, Connecting Thaypanic, in Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Diane Hafner

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?rom/

Etymology 1

From Latin rhombus (“flatfish”).

Noun

rom m (plural roms)

1. brill (Scophthalmus rhombus).

   Synonym: rèmol

Etymology 2

From English rum.

Noun

rom m (plural roms)

1. rum

Further reading

• “rom” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Cornish

Noun

rom m (plural romys)

1. room (in a house)

   Synonym: stevel

Derived terms

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?m/, [??m?]

Noun

rom c (singular definite rommen, not used in plural form)

1. rum

Noun

rom c (singular definite rommen or rom'en, plural indefinite rommer or rom'er)

1. ROM, read-only memory

Inflection

French

Adjective

rom (plural roms)

1. Roma

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from romlik, created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rom]
• Hyphenation: rom
• Rhymes: -om

Noun

rom (plural romok)

1. ruin

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• rom in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Kuku-Thaypan

Noun

rom

1. belly

References

• Barry Alpher, Connecting Thaypanic, in Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Diane Hafner

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English rum

Noun

rom m (definite singular rommen)

1. rum (alcoholic beverage)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rúm

Noun

rom n (definite singular rommet, indefinite plural rom, definite plural romma or rommene)

1. room (space, part of a building)
2. space (room)
3. space or outer space (void outside the earth's atmosphere)

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Verb

rom

1. imperative of romme

References

• “rom” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?m?/

Etymology 1

From English rum

Noun

rom m (definite singular rommen)

1. rum (alcoholic beverage)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rúm. Akin to English room.

Noun

rom n (definite singular rommet, indefinite plural rom, definite plural romma)

1. room (space, part of a building)
2. space (room)
3. space or outer space (void outside the earth's atmosphere)

Derived terms

References

• “rom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Adjective

rom (plural rom, comparable)

1. Romani (of or relating to the Roma people)

   Synonyms: cigano, roma

Noun

rom m (plural rons or roms)

1. a member of the Romani people

Romani

Noun

rom m (plural roma)

1. Alternative form of rrom (“Romani man; husband”)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [rom]

Etymology 1

From Romani rom.

Noun

rom m (plural romi, feminine equivalent rom?)

1. a Romani person, a Rom

   Synonym: (offensive) ?igan

Declension

Etymology 2

From French rhum, German Rum.

Noun

rom n (plural romuri)

1. rum

Declension

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin r?mus.

Alternative forms

• ram (Puter)

Noun

rom m (plural roms)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) branch (of tree, river, etc.)

   Synonym: (Puter) manzina

2. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader, education) subject

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• ram (Puter)
• rama (Sursilvan)

Noun

rom m (plural roms)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) frame, framework

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• ram (Puter)

Noun

rom f (plural roms)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) knot, gnarl

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish rughn, romn, from Old Norse hrogn, from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“frogspawn”); cognate with Danish and Norwegian rogn, Icelandic hrogn, German Rogen, and English roe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?m/
• IPA^(key): /r?m/
  • Homophone: Rom
• Rhymes: -?m, -?m

Noun

rom c

1. roe (egg of fish)

   Antonym: mjölke

Declension

Related terms

Etymology 2

Cognate with Danish rom, Dutch, German, and English rum, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?m/
• IPA^(key): /r?m/
  • Homophone: Rom
• Rhymes: -?m, -?m

Noun

rom c

1. rum (beverage)

   Synonym: sockerrörsbrännvin

Declension

Related terms

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ro?m/
• Rhymes: -o?m

Noun

rom c

1. a Romani person

   Synonyms: resande, tattare, zigenare

Declension

Related terms

References

• rom in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rom in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• mor, orm

Turkish

Noun

rom

1. rum

Volapük

Noun

rom

1. rum

Welsh Romani

Etymology

From Romani rrom.

Noun

rom m

1. husband

   Antonym: romni

Derived terms

References

• “rom” in Welsh Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.

West Frisian

Noun

rom n (plural [please provide])

1. pride

   Synonym: grutskens

References

• “rom (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [rœ?m?], [róm?], [r??m?]

  Rhymes: -??m?

Etymology

From Old Norse *rumm = rúm. Akin to English room.

Noun

rom n (definite singular rommä, dative rommän, indefinite plural rom, definite plural romma, dative rommom)

1. room, space, place

Derived terms