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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
roomful
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A whole roomful of precious stones.
▪ But he did it, right in front of a roomful of people.
▪ Displays suitable for a roomful of people are less advanced.
▪ I was a kid managing a roomful of people with five times my experience.
▪ In a roomful of thin boys one fat boy is odd man out.
▪ Much to his horror he was swept off his fret and sent flying through the corridors by a roomful of water.
▪ She had found it difficult to teach a roomful of students who ranged from rank beginners to professional level.
▪ Years ago, I was standing before a large roomful of our most successful distributors at a conference in Rio.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roomful

Roomful \Room"ful\, a. Abounding with room or rooms; roomy. ``A roomful house.'' [R.]
--Donne.

Roomful

Roomful \Room"ful\, n.; pl. Roomfuls. As much or many as a room will hold; as, a roomful of men.
--Swift.

Wiktionary
roomful

a. Abounding with room or rooms; roomy. n. 1 The amount that a room can hold, especially the number of people that can fit into a room 2 The people in a room, considered as a group

WordNet
roomful

n. the quantity a room will hold

Usage examples of "roomful".

Here one day the Germans made a sudden sortie, drove back the Fusiliers for a few minutes, and killed the Red Cross roomful, bayoneting the wounded men.

Sunday evening Larry Lepper had generated a roomful of Spideroid model sheets, showing front and side views of different spider characters.

You have to expect a little spirit when you get a roomful of cattlemen.

Thomas standing before the queen, his cold voice demanding an annulment, accusing her of theft and deception before a roomful of smirking courtiers and elegant women.

With its multiple ports for expansion boards and connections to other systems it would outperform a roomful of Crays.

The ensuing silence, in a roomful of drunks in an advanced stage of wreckage, was a tribute to the periphrastic performance he was putting on.

Ryan and brought her shoulders up and back as if she were about to begin to address a roomful of premedical students.

So when the raiding party had discovered a roomful of strange people all of whom were obviously unwhole, they had acted at once to put them out of their misery.

They saw the trussed-up Augie and set up a din that sounded like the shrill of a roomful of teakettles.

Sometimes he had to clamber over a roomful of sleepers or fornicators, since the slaves and peasantry had nothing to do after dark except sleep or fornicate.

Islands that Governor-General Wood, giving no intimation of his intention, no chance for preparations to be made, walked in upon a roomful of lepers, male and female, herded together for future disposition.

Stout Tonos goes on to say that she then attacked your brother and a whole roomful of men with an axe.

The roomful of bluegrass citizens, abuzz with rumors of the impending arrests, quickly quieted to give him what he knew would be his last Kentucky hearing for a long time.

They handed her round the roomful of guests as though she had been something precious and breakable, and after a few minutes of pure terror, she began to enjoy herself.

There was a roomful of old books at Bly--last-century fiction, some of it, which, to the extent of a distinctly deprecated renown, but never to so much as that of a stray specimen, had reached the sequestered home and appealed to the unavowed curiosity of my youth.