Housing and Room

Housing

Housing noun - Something that encloses another thing especially to protect it.

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Room and housing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Room" instead a noun "Housing".

Nearby Words: house, housed

Room noun - An extent or area available for or used up by some activity or thing.

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Housing and room are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Housing" instead a noun "Room".

Nearby Words: roomy, roomed, roomer, roominess, roomette

full	full housing	full room
similar	similar housing	similar room
separate	separate housing	separate room
free	free housing	free room
Other adjectives: circular, top, small, entire, massive, large, main, secret, new, extra, underground, available, giant.

Housing charity Shelter ran an ad showing a family forced to live at a "bed and breakfast" (cheap hostel accommodation offered to the homeless) in a room the size of a solitary confinement cell in jail.

Source: Nightmare Fuel / Public Service Announcement
The rising prices of student housing might be making an end to this, with students paying up to 600 for a grotty room.

Source: Basement-Dweller
Their old home warren is subsequently destroyed with poison gas to make room for a housing development.

Source: Literature / Watership Down