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Definition of Common room
1. Noun. A sitting room (usually at school or university).
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Definition of Common room
1. Noun. (UK Canada NZ) A shared lounge found in dormitories, universities, military bases, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Room
Literary usage of Common room
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1901)
"Front of " common room." 'hese people gathered in answer to a notice issued April
23, 1896, summoning them, as signers of an agreement to that effect, ..."
2. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, H. Tetu, Wilfrid Philip Ward (1889)
"Glimpses of the old common room discussions and of the characteristics of the
... Speaking of Mr. Ward's life in the common room he writes: " What struck me ..."
3. William George Ward and the Oxford Movement by Wilfrid Philip Ward (1889)
"Glimpses of the old common room discussions and of the characteristics of the
three men, Oakeley, Tait, and Ward, are given in the reminiscences of ..."
4. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"... wash in a common room, and a black hair-brush hangs ready for the whole dirty
company ? where the men all stand up at table till the ladies are seated, ..."
5. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"INSCRIBED IN A PRESENTATION COPY OF "ECHOES" TO THE COMMON-ROOM (From the United
Services College " Chronicle," March 27, 1889.) "My very noble and approved ..."
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