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common room

noun [C]
 
mainly UK

Definition

a room in a school or college where students or teachers can sit together and talk when they are not workingRoomsSchools in general
(Definition of common room noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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