roomとは

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語源 1

From Middle English roum, from 古期英語 rūm (“room, space”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmą (“room”), from Proto-Indo-European *rowə- (“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 rūs (“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 /ɹaʊm/, but /aʊ/ does not occur before noncoronal consonants in Modern English.

A room (part of a building) in a hotel.

名詞

room (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 14:8:

     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.]
   • 1716 March 13, Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 21. Friday, March 2. [1716.] [Julian calendar]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, OCLC 1056445272:

     There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance.

   • 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.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:

     For this purpose I have shown that no acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.

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.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 10, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

8. (countable, with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.

   Go to your room!

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 6, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’

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.]

    The room was on its feet.

    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.]

    Some users may not be able to access the AOL room.

14. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 2:22:

      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.

    • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

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.”

引用

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

同意語

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

下位語

Meronyms

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

Holonyms

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

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Japanese: ルーム (rūmu)
• → Kikuyu: rumu

動詞

room (三人称単数 現在形 rooms, 現在分詞 rooming, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.
   • 1988, Arthur Frederick Ide, AIDS hysteria, page 12:

     […] convinced (with no scientific evidence) that they would contract the dread disease by breathing the same air in which the patient was roomed, by touching the patient or even by changing the sheets of a patient's bed.

派生語

語源 2

From Middle English roum, rom, rum, from 古期英語 rūm (“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 *rūmaz (“roomy, spacious”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewh₁- (“free space”). Cognate with Scots roum (“spacious, roomy”), Dutch ruim (“roomy, spacious, wide”), Danish rum (“wide, spacious”), German raum (“wide”), Icelandic rúmur (“spacious”).

形容詞

room (comparative more room, superlative most room)

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

語源 3

From Middle English rome, from 古期英語 rūme (“widely, spaciously, roomily, far かつ wide, so as to extend over a wide space, liberally, extensively, amply, abundantly, in a high degree, without restriction または encumbrance, without the pressure of care, light-heartedly, without obstruction, plainly, clearly, in detail”). Cognate with Dutch ruim (“amply”, adverb).

副詞

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.

名詞

room (uncountable)

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

Further reading

See also the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica's article on:

space.

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

アナグラム

• Moor, Moro, Romo, moor