spacious
part of speech
adjective (spacious, more spacious, most spacious)
meaning for a pupil
A spacious room, house or car has a lot of space inside it; it is big and roomy. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Jeremiah describes a king building himself a wide house with large rooms. Interpretation: Jeremiah condemns the king for building a grand palace while treating workers unfairly. Tradition teaches that justice matters more than fine buildings. In the primary lessons: In everyday life house adverts say «spacious kitchen» or «spacious garden». In writing lessons it is a better word than «big» for a room. In maths, area tells you how spacious a room is: length × width. Phrases: spacious room, spacious garden, light and spacious.
examples
- That saith: 'I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers', and cutteth him out windows, and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. (Prophets JER.22.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- Our new classroom is bright and spacious. tree →
- The car is spacious enough for five people. tree →
- They live in a spacious flat by the sea. tree →
- A room 6 m by 5 m has 30 square metres, so it is quite spacious. tree →
- The hotel had spacious rooms with big windows. tree →
- The tent was more spacious than we expected. tree →
- Once upon a time in a certain country there lived a king whose palace was surrounded by a spacious garden. tree →
note
Adjective. Spelling trap: «spacious» (with c), not «spatious». The noun is «space». It describes inside space; for outside places people often say «open» or «wide».
In the corpora
- "Deceptively spacious" in a house advert usually means small (mostly UK).
- "Compact" in a house advert means small, and "deceptively spacious" usually means small too.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «spacious» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.