Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
roomful [room-foo l, roo m-] ExamplesWord Origin noun, plural room·fuls.
- an amount or number sufficient to fill a room.
Origin of roomful First recorded in 1700–10; room + -ful Usage note See -ful. Examples from the Web for roomful Contemporary Examples of roomful
He did not want to tell a roomful of hard partisans that their ideology is unworkable.
Romney and FEMA: Read Between the Lines
David Frum
October 29, 2012
A roomful of women in that room encouraged us to keep going.
Soccket Rockets: The Next Chapter
September 23, 2012
Getting caught on video doing it in a roomful of rich donors is downright sloppy.
Michelle Cottle
September 23, 2012
A man in a crowded Colorado movie theater randomly executing a roomful of total strangers including women and children?
The Aurora Shooting Made One Prominent Hollywood Producer Too Scared to Go to The Multiplex
Rick Schwartz
August 26, 2012
Ramin Setoodeh went and found a roomful of adults in Jurassic Park costumes.
Macaulay Culkin’s Life After Fame
Ramin Setoodeh
June 19, 2012
Historical Examples of roomful
Mrs. O’Callaghan was standing in the doorway and looking in at the roomful of beds.
Gulielma Zollinger
You could have heard the roomful of them catch breath together.
Maurice Henry Hewlett
You don’t mean that I can serve that roomful of enemies in there?
Edna Lyall
What was Congress, any way, but a roomful of men whom nobody heeded?
The Critical Period of American History
John Fiske
She went up on the platform, and faced the roomful of children.
Marshall Saunders
British Dictionary definitions for roomful roomful noun plural -fuls
- a number or quantity sufficient to fill a rooma roomful of furniture