apartment
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a set of large rooms with expensive decorations and furniture, kept for a special purpose or used by someone important
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a set of large rooms with expensive decorations and furniture, kept for a special purpose or used by someone important
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a room in a restaurant or other public place where you can leave your coat, hat, bag, etc. so that someone will guard them. The British word is cloakroom.
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a room in a restaurant, club, museum, or theater where people can pay to leave their coats and bags
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a room in a building or institution where people can go to relax or take part in various activities
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a large area in an airport or train station, or in front of a public building, where people can walk
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a large room in an airport where you sit and wait before going onto an airplane
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something such as a room or piece of equipment that is provided at a place for people to use
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a room in a pub (=a place that serves alcoholic drinks) in the U.K. that children are allowed into
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the place inside the main entrance of a building where you go when you arrive or go to get information
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a room in a theater or television studio where performers can rest and receive visitors
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a place where customers can leave their hats and coats at a restaurant, theater, museum, etc.
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a small room at the entrance to a building such as a university, used by the person who lets people in and out
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a room where possessions that people have accidentally left in a public place are kept until the owners come to claim them
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a public room in a place such as a hotel, university, or hospital where people can sit and relax
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the part of a large building such as a hotel or office where there is someone whose job is to welcome visitors, deal with questions, etc.
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a room in a public building where people can relax, play games, or watch television
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a large room, especially in a monastery or in some other institution, where you eat your meals with a lot of other people
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a small hot wooden room that people sit in in order to sweat (=produce water from their skin)
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a room in an international airport where passengers can wait for their flight to another country
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a toilet fixed on a wall for men to use in a public building, or a room containing several toilets of this type
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a room where people wait for something, for example a train or an opportunity to see a doctor
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