Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Back Room

Definition: Back Room

Back Room

Noun

1. A room located in the rear of an establishment; usually accessible only to privileged groups.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

.

Crosswords: Back Room

English words defined with "back room": aloudloud, loudly. (references)
Specialty definitions using "back room": Acorn Computers Ltd.Chair Raildemand paging, DiaryHAMEDoverhand cut-and-fillPLATE GAUGERre-work, RUG-CLEANER HELPER, RUG-DRY-ROOM ATTENDANTstory. (references)

Top     

Modern Usage: Back Room

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Small Back Room (1949)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Commercial Usage: Back Room

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Use in Literature: Back Room

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The ordinary conventicles of the Friends of the A B C were held in a back room of the Cafe Musain.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Back Room

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

audition back room

14

small back room

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translations: Back Room

Language Translations for "back room"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

dhomë e prapme. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

секретен отдел, задна стая. (various references)

   

Czech

  

tajné pracovištì. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hátsó szoba (backroom). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

納戸 (closet, storage room). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

な"ど (closet, degree of difficulty, how many times?, how often?, storage room). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cuillee (drawing room, lounge). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ackbay oomray.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

секретный отдел. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sporedna soba, soba u dnu kuće. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bakrum. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

gizli işlerin yapıldığı yer, arka oda. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

секретний (classified, confidential, hole-and-corner, hush hush, private, privy, secret, sensitive, subterraneous, underhand, underneath), місце секретної діяльності, закулісні переговори, закулісний (back door, backstage, backstairs, behind the scenes, offscreen, offstage), задня кімната. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Anagrams: Back Room

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: backroom.

Words within the letters "a-b-c-k-m-o-o-r"

-2 letters: crambo.

-3 letters: brock, bromo, brook, broom, carbo, carob, carom, cobra, combo, coomb, croak, crook, karoo, macro.

-4 letters: ambo, amok, arco, back, bark, barm, boar, bock, book, boom, boor, bora, broo, carb, cark, coma, comb, cook, cork, corm, crab, cram, kbar, kobo, mack, mako, marc, mark, mock, moor, mora, okra, orca, rack, roam, rock, rook, room.

-5 letters: abo, arb, arc, ark, arm, bam, bar, boa, boo, bra, bro, cab, cam, car, cob, coo, cor, kab, koa, kob, kor, mac, mar, moa, mob, moc, moo, mor, oak, oar, oca, oka, ora, orb, orc, ram, rob, roc, rom.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-k-m-o-o-r"
 

+1 letter: backrooms.

 

+2 letters: blackamoor.

 

+3 letters: blackamoors.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Back Room


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 61 63 6B      52 6F 6F 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01010010 01101111 01101111 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#99 &#107 &#32 &#82 &#111 &#111 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0063 006B      0052 006F 006F 006D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36676977252818179

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.