seating room
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- noun
- /ˈsiːtɪŋ ruːm/
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espacio de asientos
- In the new office layout, there is sufficient seating room for all employees during meetings.
Examples
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After the renovation, the café added more seating room for customers during peak hours.
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Subjects were met by a female experimenter in a small seating room and were directed to a laboratory where they were asked to take one of several seats placed in a semicircle at the end of a rectangular desk.
Academic text (1991) -
The family sat together in the cozy seating room to enjoy their movie night.
Synonyms
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A room in a hotel or airport with comfortable seats to relax
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An area with seats for many people
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A part of a room with seats for several people to sit
An area in a room or building with places for people to sit
How Many Seats
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'seating room' is directly derivable from 'seating' (space provided for people to sit) + 'room' (an indoor area), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes an area with seats. This is a regular noun-noun compositional pattern found cross-linguistically (parallel to 'seating area' or equivalents), making the phrase predictable and transparent.
Etymology
Seating room comes from the words seating, meaning places for people 'to sit', and room, meaning a 'space', so imagine a room full of chairs for many people. That's why seating room means 'an area with seats for several people'.