common room
noun
1
: a lounge available to all members of a residential community
2
: a room in a college for faculty use
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Our different conference rooms and common rooms, like there are pictures on the wall.
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Steve Baltin, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Does that mean that common rooms and amenity spaces buildings haven’t caught on with tenants?
—James Barron, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
For example, the bar in one of the common rooms, an important element for the narrative, was brought to life by reinterpreting traditional Thai design in a modern form, both in terms of materials and stylistic elements.
—Jim Halterman, IndieWire, 24 Feb. 2025
They weren’t allowed to meet in the common room or right outside her cell.
—Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Steve Baltin, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Does that mean that common rooms and amenity spaces buildings haven’t caught on with tenants?
—James Barron, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
For example, the bar in one of the common rooms, an important element for the narrative, was brought to life by reinterpreting traditional Thai design in a modern form, both in terms of materials and stylistic elements.
—Jim Halterman, IndieWire, 24 Feb. 2025
They weren’t allowed to meet in the common room or right outside her cell.
—Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for common room
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“Common room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/common%20room. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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