showroom

English

Car showroom

Etymology

From show +‎ room. Verb sense circa 2011.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃoʊˌɹum/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

showroom (plural showrooms)

1. A room in a business set aside for the display of the company's products.
2. (dated) A room or apartment where a show is exhibited.

Hypernyms

• room

Descendants

• → Russian: шоурум (šourum)

Translations

room for display of products

• Bulgarian: шоурум m (šourum)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陳列室 / 陈列室 (zh) (chénlièshì)

• Finnish: esittelytila
• French: showroom (fr) m, salle d'exposition f, salle de montre (fr) f (Quebec)
• German: Ausstellungsraum (de) m, Showroom f
• Italian: salone da esposizione m
• Japanese: ショールーム (shōrūmu)
• Korean: 쇼룸 (syorum)
• Romanian: showroom n, sală de expoziție f, salon (ro) n
• Russian: вы́ставочный зал m (výstavočnyj zal), демонстрацио́нный зал m (demonstraciónnyj zal), шо́урум (ru) m (šóurum), павильо́н (ru) m (pavilʹón) (на вы́ставке)
• Scottish Gaelic: seòmar-taisbeanaidh m
• Spanish: sala de muestras f, salón de exhibición m

Verb

showroom (third-person singular simple present showrooms, present participle showrooming, simple past and past participle showroomed)

1. To inspect merchandise in a physical store, then purchase the identical product from an online merchant; to use a physical store as a showroom for an online merchant.

   This new phone looks good, but I want to go to the mall and showroom it before buying.

Usage notes

Especially used in nominalized form showrooming.

French

Etymology

From English showroom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃo.ʁum/

• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

Noun

showroom m (plural showrooms)

1. showroom

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English showroom.

Noun

showroom n (plural showroomuri)

1. showroom

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	showroom	showroomul	showroomuri	showroomurile
genitive-dative	showroom	showroomului	showroomuri	showroomurilor
vocative	showroomule		showroomurilor

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English showroom.

Noun

showroom m (plural showrooms)

1. showroom