Common room

Common Room

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Common room

The phrase common room is used especially in British and Canadian English to describe a type of shared lounge

Lounge

Lounge may refer to:In architecture:* Airline lounge, private waiting area offered by airlines to special customers or to those who pay an extra fee...
, most often found in dormitories

Dormitory

Dormitory typically refers in the United States to residence halls, which are sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people, often boarding school, college or university students....
, at (for example) universities

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
, military base

Military base

A military base is a facility directly owned and operated by or one of its branches that shelters military equipment and personnel, and facilitates training and operations....
s, hospital

Hospital

A hospital is an institution for health care providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment, and often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays....
s, rest homes, hostel

Hostel

Hostels provide budget-oriented lodging where guests can rent a bed , sometimes a bunk bed in a dormitory and share a bathroom, lounge and sometimes a kitchen....
s, and even minimum-security prison

Prison

A prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or internment and usually deprived of a range of personal Freedom ....
s. It is generally connected to several private rooms, and may incorporate a bathroom

Bathroom

A bathroom is a room that may have different functions depending on the cultural context. In the most literal sense, the word bathroom means "a room with a bath"....
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The phrase common room is used especially in British and Canadian English to describe a type of shared lounge

Lounge

Lounge may refer to:In architecture:* Airline lounge, private waiting area offered by airlines to special customers or to those who pay an extra fee...
, most often found in dormitories

Dormitory

University

Military base

A military base is a facility directly owned and operated by or one of its branches that shelters military equipment and personnel, and facilitates training and operations....
s, hospital

Hospital

Hostel

Prison

Bathroom

A bathroom is a room that may have different functions depending on the cultural context. In the most literal sense, the word bathroom means "a room with a bath"....
. However, they may also be found in day schools and sixth form

Sixth form

The sixth form , in the Education in England, Education in Wales and Education in Northern Ireland education systems, Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Belize, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Malta is the final two years of secondary schooling when students are sixteen to eighteen years of age and normally prepare for...
s.

Regular features include couch

Couch

A couch is an upholstery item of furniture for the comfortable seating of more than one person and typically has an armrest on either side. Couches are usually to be found in the family room, living room, den or the lounge room....
es, television

Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
s, coffee table

Coffee table

A coffee table, also called a cocktail table, is a style of long, low table which is designed to be placed in front of a sofa, to support beverages , magazines, books , and other small items to be used while sitting, such as coasters....
s, and other generic lounge furniture

Furniture

Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects which may support the human body , provide storage, or hold objects on horizontal surfaces above the ground....
for socialling in.

Depending on its location and purpose of use, a common room may be known by another name. For instance, in mental hospital

Mental Hospital

Mental hospital may mean:*A Psychiatric hospital* A List of hospitals in Nepal named Mental Hospital...
s, where access is usually restricted to the daytime hours, this type of room is often called a "day room".

Common room

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