bedroom

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Alternative forms

• bed room, bed-room (archaic)

Etymology

From bed +‎ room.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛdˌɹum/, /ˈbɛdɹʊm/

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Noun

bedroom (plural bedrooms)

1. A room in a house, apartment, hotel or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.

   Please don't enter my bedroom without knocking.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “The Elopers”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 33:

     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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2. (euphemistic) The location of sexual activity.

   "How are things in the bedroom?" asked the marriage therapist.

   • 2023 August 11, Jake Register, “Your Sex Horoscope for the Weekend”, in Cosmopolitan‎:

     If you’re single, you might be going through a dry spell, or if you’re taken, life in the bedroom has become more routine and less of a spontaneous, fun activity.

Synonyms

• bedchamber (archaic), sleeping quarters

Hypernyms

• room

Hyponyms

• master bedroom

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• boredom, broomed