spacious

UK/ˈspeɪʃ.əs/US/ˈspeɪʃ.əs/

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Spacious means having lots of room inside. A spacious room, spacious kitchen, light and spacious.

It is estate-agent language, and it is one of the words buyers learn to discount — spacious describes the impression rather than the measurement, which is why the floor plan matters more. It works on rooms, vehicles and bags. Note spaciousness; and that a room can be spacious without being large, if the light and the layout are right, which is the honest version of the claim.

Definitions of spacious

1adjectivespaciousHaving lots of room inside.C1
“The new flat has a spacious kitchen where the whole family can eat together.”
synonyms: roomy, airy

spacious is a quality of roominess.

Also accepted in games: roomy

Where it comes from

Latin spatiosus comes from spatium, space or an interval. Space, spacious and expatiate come from the same room.

Latin
spatiōsus
Old French
spacios
Middle English
spacious
English, today
spacious

From Middle English spacious, from Old French spacios, from Latin spatiōsus. by surface analysis, space + -ious.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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spacious in the wild

A gazebo is a pavilion structure, sometimes octagonal or turret-shaped, often built in a park, garden, or spacious public area.
Gazebo
Crocker End House in Nettlebed in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England is a spacious Victorian home built to replace Nettlebed's prosperous rectory in about 1870.
Crocker End House
In his book "White Rat", Herzog says the approach was a response to the spacious, artificial surface stadiums of the time.
Whiteyball
The areas were usually more spacious, well-planned, and better maintained, reflecting the status and administrative role of the officers who resided there.
Civil Lines
The spacious, two-story residence also represents a rare example of Usonian design, since the "Usonian Homes" were typically small, single-story dwellings.
Dorothy H. Turkel House

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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.

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