Definition

Noun: A room in a house, typically one that is not used for daily living, designated for storing miscellaneous, unused, or bulky items, especially furniture and other objects that are not currently needed.

Usage

The term "lumber room" specifically refers to a designated storage space within a domestic setting. It is used to describe a room filled with a collection of assorted, often forgotten items.

Examples

• Noun:
  • We cleared out the old chairs and boxes from the lumber room to make space.
  • The family portrait was found stored away in the lumber room.
  • He went into the lumber room to look for the spare holiday decorations.

Advanced Usage

• "to be a lumber room": Used metaphorically to describe a place or situation that is cluttered with disorganized or unused elements.
  • His mind was a lumber room of half-forgotten facts and ideas.
• "lumber-room of history": A literary phrase describing a repository for outdated or discarded historical events or figures.
  • The treaty has been consigned to the lumber-room of history.

Variants and Related Words

• Lumber (verb, ): To move in a slow, heavy, awkward way. (Note: This is a distinct word; the "lumber" in "lumber room" relates to old, cumbersome articles.)
• Storage room (noun): A more general, modern synonym.
• Junk room (noun): A very close synonym, emphasizing the disordered or worthless nature of the items.
• Box room (noun, ): A small room used for storage.

Synonyms

• Storeroom: A room for storing goods.
• Attic: A space or room just below the roof of a building, often used for storage.
• Cellar/Basement: A room below ground level in a building, often used for storage.
• Garret: A top-floor or attic room, often used for storage or as a poor living space.

Related Phrases

• Full of lumber: An old-fashioned phrase meaning full of disused furniture or cumbersome objects.
  • The attic was full of lumber from previous generations.

Noun

1. a storeroom in a house where odds and ends can be stored (especially furniture)