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Definition: Playroom |
PlayroomNoun1. A recreation room for noisy activities (parties or children's play etc). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "playroom" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references) |
Synonyms: PlayroomSynonyms: game room (n), rumpus room (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Playroom |
| Specialty definitions using "playroom": PLAYROOM ATTENDANT. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Playroom (1990) | |
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 | Passaic, New Jersey. Factory owner Carlson organized home machine shops for defense work. The Carlson family in the milkbar in the cellar playroom of their home in a Passaic suburb. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | C. Maury Jones, residence in Peapack, New Jersey. Playroom. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | James S. Yates, residence in East Hampton, Long Island. Playroom bar. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Guido R. Rahr, residence in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Playroom I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Nelson Doubleday, residence in Mill Neck, Long Island, New York. Playroom. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Frelinghuysen, residence in Far Hills, New Jersey. Playroom I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Nicolas M. Salgo, residence at Sands Point, Port Washington, Long Island. Playroom. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Good Samaritan Hospital, West Palm Beach, Florida. Children's playroom. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Leon Levy, residence, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Playroom, to fireplace. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | No more war toys : disarmament begins in the playroom. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | If the child is confined to bed and unable to go to the playroom, recreational therapists or child life workers may pay bedside visits. (references) | |
Playroom personnel are often trained professionals with backgrounds in psychology, special education, childhood development, social work, nursing, or recreational therapy. (references) | ||
Playrooms may also be equipped to provide outlets for the energies of older children and adolescents who may enjoy taking part in crafts of playing games appropriate to their ages. Video games and tape players for use in the playroom or their own rooms are popular with teens. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Playroom" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Playroom" is used about 74 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 74 | 38,813 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "playroom"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стая за игри. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | spielzimmer (run room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stanza dei giochi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ayroomplay cercado (fence, girdle, walled, zariba). (various references) комната для игр, детская комната (nursery). (various references) soba za igru. (various references) cuarto de jugar. (various references) дитяча кімната (nursery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "playroom": playrooms. (additional references) | |
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"Playroom" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pleroma, Polyatom. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "playroom" (pronounced plā"ruw'm) |
| 3 | -r uw' m | backroom, ballroom, barroom, bathroom, bedroom, boardroom, bridegroom, classroom, cloakroom, courtroom, darkroom, elbowroom, headroom, lunchroom, newsroom, restroom, schoolroom, stockroom, storeroom, sunroom, toolroom, washroom, workroom. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-m-o-o-p-r-y" | |
-1 letter: polyoma. | |
-2 letters: poorly, pyrola. | |
-3 letters: amply, loamy, loopy, marly, mayor, molar, moola, moory, moral, moray, orlop, palmy, parol, payor, polar, promo, roomy, royal. | |
-4 letters: amyl, army, aryl, lamp, loam, loom, loop, lory, marl, mayo, mola, moly, mool, moor, mopy, mora, opal, oral, palm, paly, play, ploy, polo, poly, pool, poor, pram, prao, pray, proa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-m-o-o-p-r-y" | |
+1 letter: playrooms. | |
+2 letters: lampoonery, laparotomy. | |
+3 letters: amorphously, primatology. | |
+4 letters: pharmacology, pronominally. | |
+5 letters: chlamydospore, lymphosarcoma, polychromatic, polyribosomal, postembryonal, promotability. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6C 61 79 72 6F 6F 6D |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-.. .- -.--. .-. --- --- -- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101100 01100001 01111001 01110010 01101111 01101111 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P l a y r o o m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006C 0061 0079 0072 006F 006F 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5078679184818179 |
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