How to spell spacious

Spacious is spelled S-P-A-C-I-O-U-S.

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What it means: Having a large amount of room.

In a sentence: The playground is spacious and has lots of room to run.

Same family: space, spaced, spacing, spatial, spaciously. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Spacious” comes from the Latin word *spatium*, meaning “room, distance, or area.” The same root also gave us the modern English word “space,” so a spacious room is literally a room with lots of space.

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