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Definition of Roomful
1. Noun. The quantity a room will hold.
Definition of Roomful
1. a. Abounding with room or rooms; roomy.
2. n. As much or many as a room will hold; as, a roomful of men.
Definition of Roomful
1. Noun. The amount that a room can hold, especially the number of people that can fit into a room ¹
2. Noun. The people in a room, considered as a group ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Roomful
1. as much as a room can hold [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roomful
Literary usage of Roomful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1751 to by Gilbert Elliot Minto (1874)
"I went, after Mrs. Legge's, to Lord North's, where was a large but very pleasant
roomful. Among the rest came Harriet, Lady Beauchamp,1 and George Ellis. ..."
2. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"roomful bouse," (in Donne,)ahouse/u// of room, abounding in room. In common
speech, a roomful is a room—-full of, or filled with, people, furniture, Sic. ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1919)
"... it suffices to say that a roomful of people could ;ver witness such a thing,
it is absolutely impossible to see, and :t here a roomful all see. ..."
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