bedroom

UK/ˈbɛdɹuːm/US/ˈbɛdˌɹum/

nounA1Very common — you will meet it every day · #943 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: bedrooms

The bedroom is the room where you sleep. A bed, a wardrobe, curtains you keep shut in the morning.

It is one of the first words anyone learns about a house, and it is also the unit houses are sold in: a three-bedroom flat, a spare bedroom, the back bedroom. Estate agents count bedrooms before they count anything else. The word works in front of nouns for furniture and slippers alike. And there is a slightly arch use, since bedroom scenes and bedroom eyes are about sex rather than sleep.

Definitions of bedroom

1nounbedroomA room used for sleeping in.A1
“The house has three bedrooms and one bathroom.”

Where it comes from

From bed + room.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Around the House, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 4 of A Man Called Ove.

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bedroom in the wild

A typical Western bedroom contains as bedroom furniture one or two beds, a clothes closet, and bedside table and dressing table, both of which usually contain drawers.
Bedroom
In their original form a set of state rooms made up a state apartment, which always included a bedroom.
State room
Second floor, front to back, on one side, bedroom, bathroom and bedroom; while on the other side, bedroom, stairway and bedroom.
American Foursquare
The bedrooms had a slightly longer dimension along the front and back of the house with side-by-side closets between the bedrooms.
American Foursquare

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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