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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Paintings by Spanish muralist Josep Maria Sert fill the common rooms, and visitors from far and wide come to try the Ampurdán tasting menu at the hotel’s El Mas restaurant, where large windows offer panoramic vistas of the storybook-pretty village of Pals.
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Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 28 May 2025
Our different conference rooms and common rooms, like there are pictures on the wall.
—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
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Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 28 May 2025
Our different conference rooms and common rooms, like there are pictures on the wall.
—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
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 17 Jun. 2025.
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