The Collaborative International Dictionary
common-room
common room \common room\, common-room \common-room\n. a room, usually at a school or university, set aside for the common use of everyone. It usually has comfortable chairs for reading or conversation, and some provision for obtaining refreshments.
Syn: .
Usage examples of "common-room".
Hill and North Oxford at gay, contentious little parties, or at other senior common-rooms, or at the meetings of learned societies, for the annual Bollinger dinner is a difficult time for those in authority.
What, then, was she doing in the common-room of a shabby inn on the market square?
The Ilanth scouts, coming out of the common-room, squatted on their heels by the wall of the caravansary.