Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.
rooms, apartment [U.S.], flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement.
     [room for defecation and urination] bath room, bathroom, toilet,
lavatory, powder room; john, jakes, necessary, loo; [in public places] men’s room, ladies’ room, rest room; [fixtures:  see 653 (uncleanness)].
     attic, loft, garret, cockloft, clerestory; cellar, vault, hold,
cockpit; cubbyhole; cook house; entre-sol; mezzanine floor; ground floor, rez-de-chaussee; basement, kitchen, pantry, bawarchi-khana, scullery, offices; storeroom &c. (depository) 636; lumber room; dairy, laundry.
     coach house; garage; hangar; outhouse; penthouse; lean-to.
     portico, porch, stoop, stope, veranda, patio, lanai, terrace, deck;
lobby, court, courtyard, hall, vestibule, corridor, passage, breezeway; ante room, ante chamber; lounge; piazza [=veranda, U.S.].
     conservatory, greenhouse, bower, arbor, summerhouse, alcove, grotto,
hermitage.
     lodging &c. (abode) 189; bed &c. (support) 215; carriage &c. (vehicle)
272. 
     Adj. capsular; saccular, sacculated; recipient; ventricular, cystic,
vascular, vesicular, cellular, camerated, locular, multilocular, polygastric; marsupial; siliquose, siliquous.

% SECTION II.  DIMENSIONS

1.  GENERAL DIMENSIONS %

     #192.  Size.—­ N. size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume; largeness
&c. adj.; greatness &c. (of quantity) 31; expanse &c. (space) 180; amplitude, mass; proportions.
     capacity, tonnage, tunnage; cordage; caliber, scantling.
     turgidity &c. (expansion) 194; corpulence, obesity; plumpness &c.
adj.; embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood.
     hugeness &c. adj.; enormity, immensity, monstrosity.
     giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua,
monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; “Triton among the minnows” [Coriolanus].
     mountain, mound; heap &c. (assemblage) 72.
     largest portion &c. 50; full size, life size. 
     V. be large &c. adj.; become large &c. (expand) 194. 
     Adj. large, big; great &c. (in quantity) 31; considerable, bulky,
voluminous, ample, massive, massy; capacious, comprehensive; spacious &c. 180; mighty, towering, fine, magnificent.
     corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping,
bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; corn fed, gram fed; stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good case, in good condition; in condition; chopping,

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