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GREENROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does greenroom mean? 

GREENROOM (noun)
  The noun GREENROOM has 1 sense:

1. a backstage room in a theater where performers rest or have visitorsplay

  Familiarity information: GREENROOM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GREENROOM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A backstage room in a theater where performers rest or have visitors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("greenroom" is a kind of...):

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

Holonyms ("greenroom" is a part of...):

house; theater; theatre (a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented)


 Context examples 


I can stand it no longer, and I think, I may say, that nothing shall ever tempt me to it again; but one good thing I have just ascertained: it is the very room for a theatre, precisely the shape and length for it; and the doors at the farther end, communicating with each other, as they may be made to do in five minutes, by merely moving the bookcase in my father's room, is the very thing we could have desired, if we had sat down to wish for it; and my father's room will be an excellent greenroom.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)



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