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legroom

UK/ˈlɛɡɹuːm/US/ˈlɛɡɹuːm/
nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,950 of 15,258neutral

Legroom is the space in front of your seat. Not enough legroom, extra legroom, pay for legroom.

Airlines measure it as seat pitch, the distance from one seat back to the next, and it has fallen by several inches since the 1970s. Exit rows and bulkheads have the most, which is why they are sold separately.

Andy Mitchell from Glasgow, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0

Definitions of legroom

  1. 1nounlegroomThe space in front of your seat.B2+

    “I always book an aisle seat because there's a bit more legroom.”

legroom is a space.

Where it comes from

Leg plus room, from the plain description of the space needed.

From leg + room.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Airport & Flying

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legroom in the wild

  • Both offer the same legroom, but there is slightly less width per passenger in a TSO.

    Tourist Standard Open

  • Six-cylinder models received a longer nose, and 'S'-models also had a longer passenger compartment, offering more legroom.

    Mercedes-Benz Ponton

  • The first and second class both had the same seats although first class had more legroom.

    SJ X12

  • As an example, higher H-points can provide more legroom, both in the front and back seats.

    H-point

  • A review in Exclaim! magazine stated the album saw SOJA "stretching their boundaries and enjoying the legroom".

    Born in Babylon

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.