spacious

«spacious» in Mova's school dictionary: A spacious room, house or car has a lot of space inside… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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 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

• 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.