Great room
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The term great room denotes a roomspace within an abode which combines the specific functions of several of the more traditional roomspaces (e.g. the family room, the living room, the study, etc.) into a singular unified space. Different great rooms will combine different functions, e.g. some may incorporate a reading area, thus bringing the traditional study function into the scheme of the room, while others may forego this particular function.
Often the presence of a great room indicates the absence of the correlative traditional rooms whose functions the great room assumes. However, this need not always be the case, e.g. the abovementioned great room with a reading area may be in an abode which also contains a separate dedicated study. Importantly, it would seem that the as the ratio between the two parameters "functions assumed by the great room" and "rooms whose functions have been assumed which still survive alongside the great room" decreases, it becomes increasingly likely that what one is dealing with is less a great room in the standard sense of the term and more a true reception room in the lineage of larger estate houses; the implication of this statistical analysis is more tight-fitting to reality as the magnitude of each parameter increases, while still respecting the ratio test described supra.
In the most general sense, great rooms are typically found on the lower level of American multi-story homes built in the second half of the 20th century.
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