Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

room in

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.38 in modern English

Syllables: room in
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Of a mother and her new baby; to stay together in the same room.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"The concept of rooming-in to facilitate parenting was first championed in the United States in the 1940's by Faith Jackson, a child psychiatrist at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center […]"
"Infants may be separated from their parents when hospitalized if the parents cannot room in because of hospital policy or because the parents must work or care for other children."

Usage

Intransitive verb

Inflected Forms

rooms in (present, singular) rooming in (participle, present) roomed in (participle, past) roomed in (past)

Questions

What does room in mean?: Of a mother and her new baby; to stay together in the same room.

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