room

habitación

Espacio separado dentro de un edificio, rodeado de paredes y con suelo y techo.

En inglés sencillo: A separate space inside a building, with walls, a floor, and a ceiling.

• This room is very small.
• We painted the rooms upstairs last weekend.
• Which room is the meeting in?

Expresiones frecuentes: living room, meeting room, room in something, dining room

espacio

Espacio libre que una persona o cosa puede ocupar o utilizar.

En inglés sencillo: Empty space that someone or something can use.

• There is no room in my bag.
• Move your chair to make room for Sam.
• Do we have enough room to dance?

Cómo se usa: room for someone/something (Is there room for another chair?); room to do something (There is enough room to turn the car around.)

Sinónimos: space

Expresiones frecuentes: make room, enough room, room for something, room to move

dormitorio

Habitación de una casa donde alguien duerme y guarda sus cosas personales.

En inglés sencillo: The place in a home where someone sleeps and keeps their personal things.

• My room is upstairs.
• The children cleaned their rooms before lunch.
• Can I put a desk in my room?

Sinónimos: bedroom

Expresiones frecuentes: my room, own room, tidy room

compartir habitación

Vivir en una habitación, normalmente compartiéndola con otra persona.

En inglés sencillo: To live in a particular room, often sharing it with someone.

• We room together at college.
• She roomed with her sister last year.
• Who will you room with next term?

Cómo se usa: room with someone (I room with a friend from college.)

Sinónimos: share a room, lodge

Expresiones frecuentes: room with someone, room together

alojarse

Vivir en un lugar pagando el alquiler de una habitación.

En inglés sencillo: To live somewhere as a person who rents a room.

• He rooms near the station.
• She roomed with a local family for a year.
• Two students roomed upstairs while they attended college.

Cómo se usa: room at somewhere (He roomed at a house near the station.); room with someone (She roomed with an elderly couple.)

Sinónimos: lodge, board

Expresiones frecuentes: room at somewhere, room with someone