What does "room" mean?

Room: There was no room for them in the inn. Luke ii.

Additional senses

  1. 2.2. A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat. If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse. Overbury. When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room. Luke xiv.
  2. 3.3. Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber. I found the prince in the next room. Shak.
  3. 4.Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated. [Obs.] When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod. Matt. ii.
  4. 5.Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven. Tyndale. Let Bianca take her sister's room. Shak.
  5. 6.Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope. There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance. Addison. Room and space (Shipbuilding), the distance from one side of a rib to the corresponding side of the next rib; space being the distance between two ribs, in the clear, and room the width of a rib. -- To give room, to withdraw; to leave or provide space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated. -- To make room, to open a space, way, or passage; to remove obstructions; to give room. Make room, and let him stand before our face. Shak.
  6. 7.To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together.
  7. 8.Spacious; roomy. [Obs.] No roomer harbour in the place. Chaucer.

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