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Definition of Roomy
1. Adjective. (of buildings and rooms) having ample space. "A spacious ballroom"
Similar to: Commodious, Convenient
Derivative terms: Room, Roominess, Space, Spaciousness
2. Noun. An associate who shares a room with you.
Definition of Roomy
1. a. Having ample room; spacious; large; as, a roomy mansion; a roomy deck.
Definition of Roomy
1. Adjective. Spacious, expansive, comfortable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Roomy
1. spacious [adj ROOMIER, ROOMIEST] : ROOMILY [adv] - See also: spacious
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roomy
Literary usage of Roomy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... sleep his monstrous limbs With roomy decks, her guns of mighty Deep in her
draught, and warlike in her length. I have aired some very desperate coughs ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1898)
"slighter cases are : (a) thick soles with well-fitting insteps, and roomy around
the heads of the metatarsals ; (/>) a thickening of the sole of at least ..."
3. Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to His First Wife by Richard Wagner (1909)
"... beyond question it is superior to our Dresden one ; ie more roomy, not so low,
nor with such a dead acoustic. Now, after passably sleeping it off last ..."
4. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"J. The prattling things arc just their pride, Their [the Great-folk's] roomy
fire-side : . Ep. to Da-vie May fireside discords jar a ba.se That sweetens a' ..."
5. The photographic studios of Europe by Henry Baden Pritchard (1882)
"The studio is very spacious, and very few curtains are made use of; so roomy is
it, indeed, that you might point the camera in any direction. ..."
6. The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First by John Dryden, Edmond Malone (1800)
"... number is more roomy; the thought can turn itself with greater ease in a larger
compass. When were heroick, the diction should still remain vulgar, ..."
7. The Monumental City: Its Past History and Present Resources by George Washington Howard (1873)
"... SUN was removed to a roomy building at the corner of Baltimore and Gay Streets.
Even this building was soon found to be insufficient and in the ..."
8. Personal Recollections of Werner Von Siemens by Werner von Siemens (1893)
"grafenstrasse. at the hack of which a fine roomy workshop had been erected, whilst
the front part, recently enlarged, yielded us excellent dwelling ..."
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