showroom

English

Car showroom

Etymology

From show +‎ room. Verb sense circa 2011.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃoʊˌɹum/

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

Translations

room for display of products

• Chinese:

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

• Finnish: esittelytila
• French: showroom (fr) m, salle d’exposition f, salle de montre f (Quebec)
• German: Ausstellungsraum (de) m, Showroom f
• Italian: salone da esposizione m
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• 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

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.

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃo.ʁum/

Noun

showroom m (plural showrooms)

1. showroom

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Spanish

Noun

showroom m (plural showrooms)

1. showroom