headroom

noun

head·​room ˈhed-ˌrüm How to pronounce headroom (audio)
-ˌru̇m
: vertical space in which to stand, sit, or move

Examples of headroom in a Sentence

He's looking for a car with a lot of headroom.
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Sitting behind the driver’s seat, adjusted for my 5 ft 10in self, there is a lot of legroom, with plenty of headroom too. James Morris, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025 Custom Container Living On the opposite side of the tiny house is another bedroom – again boasting plenty of headroom – with a double bed and a walk-in closet. Adam Williams may 20, New Atlas, 20 May 2025 Store individual portions in freezer-safe containers with little headroom (to prevent freezer burn). Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 2 May 2025 Fitch Ratings on Thursday warned that the initiative, which could mobilize close to 800 billion euros of defense expenditures, risks lowering the headroom of the EU’s current AAA rating because of the additional debt likely to be undertaken, without leading to an outright downgrade. Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for headroom

Word History

First Known Use

1762, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of headroom was in 1762

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“Headroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/headroom. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.

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