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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 706 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROOM , originally a word meaning space or See also:

accommodation; the See also:ordinary meaning of an apartment in a See also:building, one of the interior divisions of a See also:house, See also:dates from the 15th See also:century. The word is See also:common to See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf. Du. ruim, Ger. Raum, Swed. and See also:Dan. See also:rum, with the See also:original meaning of space. See also:Skeat connects the word with the See also:root seen in See also:Lat. rus, open See also:country.

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