darkroom

noun

dark·​room ˈdärk-ˌrüm 

-ˌru̇m

: a room with no light or with a safelight for developing light-sensitive photographic materials

Examples of darkroom in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Isaac Jones still remembers the walk-in closet of his Austin home doubling as a darkroom. —Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025

As usual, under Horst’s system, each roll was meticulously logged in with a double set of stick-on numbers: first beside the photographer’s name in a school exercise book and second on the actual roll of film for processing in the darkroom. —Gary Knight, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2025

Cyanide—painful, lethal, and surprisingly quotidian—was not the only darkroom risk. —Anika Burgess july 17, Literary Hub, 17 July 2025

For herself: a darkroom, also on the ground floor, and a photography studio on the top, under a skylight. —Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1841, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for darkroom

• assume
• backroom
• ballroom
• barroom
• bathroom
• bedroom
• boardroom
• bridegroom
• classroom
• cloakroom
• consume
• costume

Kids Definition

darkroom

noun

dark·​room ˈdärk-ˌrüm 

-ˌru̇m

: a lightproof room used in developing photographic materials (as film and prints)