roomful

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   as many people or things as a room contains or can hold

   A roomful of reporters waited for the announcement.

2. 2
   noun

   all the people or things present in a room, considered together

   Her final remark surprised the entire roomful.

Formed from room and the measure-forming suffix -ful, literally 'the quantity that fills a room.' The standard plural is roomfuls; roomsful also occurs.

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