单词 | roomful |
释义 | ▪ I. ˈroomful, n. [f. room n.1 + -ful 2.] As much or as many as a room will hold.
1710Swift Exam. No. 25 ⁋8 Where it is a Man's Business to entertain a whole Room-full, it is unmannerly to apply himself to a particular Person. 1772Franklin Lett. Wks. 1887 IV. 537 [Of books] I brought none with me, and have now a roomful. 1841Browning Pippa Passes ii, This room-full of rough block-work. 1850Thackeray Pendennis xxv[i], One day he went to the Hall, and there was a roomful of visitors. 1884‘Edna Lyall’ We Two xxvi, She..had to serve her roomful of enemies. ▪ II. ˈroomful, a. rare. [f. room n.1 + -ful 1.] Capacious, ample, roomy.
1601Donne Progr. Soul xxxiv. Wks. (Grosart) I. 82 Now in a roomefull house this soule doth floate. 1892Brooke E.E. Lit. II. xvi. 85 He reared aloft the Firmament and this roomful land stablished. |

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