houseroom

English

Etymology

From house +‎ room.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhaʊsɹuːm/

Noun

houseroom (countable and uncountable, plural houserooms)

1. (uncountable) Room or place in a house. [from 16th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     ‘But go thy waies to him, and fro me say, / That here is at his gate an errant Knight, / That house-room craves […].’

   • 1685, John Dunton, An Hue and Cry after Conscience‎^[1], London, page 56:

     […] it would make a man mad of our profession, especially to be buz’d in the Ears with your Honesty or Plain-dealing, as if you were turned their Advocate, and went about to perswade us to give them House room.

   • 1786, Frederick Pilon, He Would Be a Soldier, London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Act III, p. 38,^[2]

     […] she has more old figures than is worth house room.

   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 43, in The Mayor of Casterbridge‎^[3]:

     And, Mr. Farfrae, as you provide so much, and houseroom, and all that, I’ll do my part in the drinkables, and see to the rum and schiedam—maybe a dozen jars will be sufficient?

2. (countable) A room dedicated for the use of a particular house at a boarding school.

Anagrams

• Moorhouse