ADJOINING ROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adjoining room mean? 

• ADJOINING ROOM (noun)
  The noun ADJOINING ROOM has 1 sense:

1. a hotel room that shares a wall with another hotel room

  Familiarity information: ADJOINING ROOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADJOINING ROOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hotel room that shares a wall with another hotel room

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("adjoining room" is a kind of...):

hotel room (a bedroom (usually with bath) in a hotel)

 Context examples 

The aunt and niece seemed both escaping into the adjoining room.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Sophy tripped away, and we heard her received in the adjoining room with a peal of laughter.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The engineer, who occupied the adjoining room, dropped in to meet the new hand and helped Martin rig up an electric bulb, on an extension wire, so that it travelled along a stretched cord from over the table to the bed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was not closed, however, it still remained ajar; but by engaging the housekeeper in incessant conversation, she hoped to make it practicable for him to chuse his own subject in the adjoining room.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)