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SPACIOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of buildings and rooms) having ample space
Example:
a spacious ballroom
Synonyms:
roomy; spacious
Classified under:
Similar:
commodious; convenient (large and roomy ('convenient' is archaic in this sense))
Derivation:
space (an area reserved for some particular purpose)
spaciousness (spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Very large in expanse or scope
Example:
spacious skies
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Derivation:
spaciousness (spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building))
Context examples:
Miss Bertram could now speak with decided information of what she had known nothing about when Mr. Rushworth had asked her opinion; and her spirits were in as happy a flutter as vanity and pride could furnish, when they drove up to the spacious stone steps before the principal entrance.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
On reaching the spacious lobby above they were shown into a very pretty sitting-room, lately fitted up with greater elegance and lightness than the apartments below; and were informed that it was but just done to give pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room when last at Pemberley.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
When Mrs. Fairfax had bidden me a kind good-night, and I had fastened my door, gazed leisurely round, and in some measure effaced the eerie impression made by that wide hall, that dark and spacious staircase, and that long, cold gallery, by the livelier aspect of my little room, I remembered that, after a day of bodily fatigue and mental anxiety, I was now at last in safe haven.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I merely wish to say, that as a slight token of my gratitude for the honor done me, and as a means of promoting friendly relations between adjoining nations, I have set up a post office in the hedge in the lower corner of the garden, a fine, spacious building with padlocks on the doors and every convenience for the mails, also the females, if I may be allowed the expression.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Cleveland was a spacious, modern-built house, situated on a sloping lawn.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He wore rough clothes that smacked of the sea, and he was manifestly out of place in the spacious hall in which he found himself.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Fanny's imagination had prepared her for something grander than a mere spacious, oblong room, fitted up for the purpose of devotion: with nothing more striking or more solemn than the profusion of mahogany, and the crimson velvet cushions appearing over the ledge of the family gallery above.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I stood and warmed my numbed fingers over the blaze, then I looked round; there was no candle, but the uncertain light from the hearth showed, by intervals, papered walls, carpet, curtains, shining mahogany furniture: it was a parlour, not so spacious or splendid as the drawing-room at Gateshead, but comfortable enough.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
If you need to move, you can now find a space that you like—you may close on a new house or condo or move into a spacious rental near or just after the new moon in Pisces, February 23.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The little white attic, which had continued her sleeping-room ever since her first entering the family, proving incompetent to suggest any reply, she had recourse, as soon as she was dressed, to another apartment more spacious and more meet for walking about in and thinking, and of which she had now for some time been almost equally mistress.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
