Room n.
 1. Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room.
    Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.   --Luke xiv. 22.
    There was no room for them in the inn.   --Luke ii. 7.
 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. 8.
 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.
 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. 22.
    Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven.   --Tyndale.
    Let Bianca take her sister's room.   --Shak.
 5. 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.
 Syn: -- Space; compass; scope; latitude.