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common room

noun as in sitting room in a residential community or school

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Example Sentences

There is no menorah in the Gryffindor common room or any mention of Chanukah in any Harry Potter book.

Garnache gave orders for the horses to be cared for, and bade Rabecque get himself fed in the common room.

A bright flame was burning in that of the common room, and within the very jambs of its monstrous jaws sat Cæsar and Katy.

In truth the room in which he found himself was worthy of inspection, for it was no common room, either in aspect or furnishing.

Thanks to Hearne, it is easy to reproduce the common-room gossip, and the more treasonable talk of honest men at Antiquity Hall.

Strawberries were fourpence a basket on the ninth of June; and on November 6, White lost one shilling ‘at cards, in common room.’

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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