seating room
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- noun
- /ˈsiːtɪŋ ruːm/
- 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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An area in a room or building with places for people to sit
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A part of a room with seats for several 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'.