bedroom

See also: bed-room

English

A bedroom.

Etymology

bed + room

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɛdɹuːm/
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Noun

bedroom (plural bedrooms)

  1. A room in a house where a bed is kept for sleeping.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess:
      The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, [].
    • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
      I am in the bedroom.
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    Please don't enter my bedroom without knocking.

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  • sleeping quarters, sleeping pad

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