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newsroom

newsroom

2 2.8
A room in a library or club where people read newspapers and magazines
  • noun
  • /ˈnuːzruːm/
  • Archaic
translation icon : sala de lectura

Examples

  • I'd like to go to the newsroom with you.

  • It's a busy, loud newsroom.

    Blog text (4)
  • Do you know what floor the newsroom's on?

  • In the newsroom.

  • From the newsroom floor, it resembled a sort of lunch counter, built at chest height, from which George, Ruth Sutton, and Diane Bouvier served up a constantly changing menu of fast information.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • The library has a quiet newsroom filled with various newspapers and magazines for visitors to read.

  • I spent the afternoon in the newsroom, enjoying the latest articles and features from different periodicals.

  • In the newsroom, patrons can find a comfortable space to keep up with current events through print media.

Synonyms

reading room
vsnewsroom
5 2.6

A quiet room in a library where people read or study

focuses specifically on newspapers and periodicals for casual reading

Surface Forms

newsroom singular
newsrooms plural

Morphology

newsroom = news + room (transparent) = news + room

This sense (a reading room with newspapers) is a literal 'room' containing 'news', so the compound is directly interpretable.

Etymology

Newsroom can also mean a room where newspapers and magazines are kept and read, because it is literally news ('new information') plus room ('a space'), making it a place to read the day's news.