bedroom

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noun

bed·​room ˈbed-ˌrüm How to pronounce bedroom (audio)
-ˌru̇m
: a room furnished with a bed and intended primarily for sleeping
bedroomed
ˈbed-ˌrümd How to pronounce bedroom (audio)
-ˌru̇md
adjective

bedroom

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adjective

1
: dealing with, suggestive of, or inviting sexual relations
a bedroom farce
bedroom eyes
2
: inhabited or used by commuters
a bedroom community

Examples of bedroom in a Sentence

Adjective The play is a bedroom farce about a middle-aged couple. She looked at him with bedroom eyes.
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Noun
In total, there are six bedrooms and six full bathrooms, plus two additional half baths. Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 Nov. 2025 The dispatcher says the homeowner is in communication with 911, upstairs, from a bedroom. Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 14 Nov. 2025 When the transporters arrived, Ozzie was found unresponsive in Jax’s son’s bedroom. Giana Levy, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025 As proof, Cumberbatch reaches back to his gap year before college, awarding the ultimate five-star travel experience to a small bedroom in the bottom of a home in Sonada, south of Darjeeling, India, that had been converted into a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, housing about 30 monks. Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 13 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bedroom

Word History

First Known Use

Noun

circa 1570, in the meaning defined above

Adjective

1900, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of bedroom was circa 1570

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“Bedroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bedroom. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.

Kids Definition

bedroom

noun
bed·​room
-ˌrüm
-ˌru̇m
: a room used for sleeping

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