conference room
101
2.0
- noun
- /ˈkɒnfərəns ruːm/
- Each focus group was conducted in a conference room in a hospital setting.
- meeting in a conference room
- meet in a conference room
- hotel conference room
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Watch on YouTubeWe were in a kind of medium well lit conference room in a cool hotel.
- We were in a kind of medium well lit conference room in a cool hotel.
- So come along for the ride as we pimp out our conference room.
- And I walked into the conference room.
- There is nothing that feels worse in the moment than being brought into a conference room and being let go.
- So what that means is like there are like, you know, more official hard spaces like conference rooms and huddle rooms.
- Because here you are sitting in this like conference room of what tech company, blah, blah, blah, right.
- But I know people that have gone to literally just gone to a conference room, you know, hotel to do their ayahuasca.
Examples
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The meeting is scheduled for ten tomorrow morning in the conference room next to his office.
Fiction book (1995) -
We can meet in the conference room to talk business.
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There is nothing that feels worse in the moment than being brought into a conference room and being let go.
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Um... let me show you to the conference room.
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The conference room should be big enough to set up shop in.
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Intervention sessions took place in a conference room near the school office.
Academic text (2015) -
The ceremony took place in a handsome conference room at the Supreme Court.
Academic text (1996) -
Next, picture yourself sitting in a conference room with your mentor, one of the senior associates at the firm.
Academic text (2018) -
All parent implementation observations and feedback sessions were carried out in a conference room at the local elementary school.
Academic text (2014) -
We can meet in the conference room to discuss the new project.
Synonyms
36
3.6
A room where a company's leaders meet to make important decisions
10
4.1
A room where local officials meet to make decisions for a town or city
1
3.0
A room in a college or university where a teacher speaks to many students
1
3.1
A room where club members meet for activities
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a space for holding meetings' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'conference' (a planned meeting) with 'room' (a space). The noun-noun composition follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern and even the extension to a virtual space is a clear metaphorical extension of 'room', so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Conference room comes from the simple idea of a conference, a formal meeting, held in a room where people sit around a table to talk and decide things, so it means 'a room for meetings'.