English

great room

In many modern homes, a room that combines the roles of several more traditional rooms such as the family room, living room, and study.

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    Origin

    From great + room. Compare Middle English grete chaumbre (“greatroom”).

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    • partEnglishgreat “Taking much space; large.”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishgrete
        • inheritedOld Englishgrēat “great”
        • inheritedOld Englishgreot “grit”
    • partEnglishroom “An opportunity or scope (to do something).”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishroum
        • inheritedOld Englishrūm “roomy, spacious, ample, extensive, large, open, unencumbered, unoccupied, temporal, long, extended,…”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishrome
        • inheritedOld Englishrūme “widely, spaciously, roomily, far and wide, so as to extend over a wide space, liberally, extensivel…”

    Related: Middle English grete chaumbre

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