bedroom

nouncommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈbɛdɹuːm//
United Kingdom//ˈbɛdɹʊm//
United States//ˈbɛdˌɹum//
United States//ˈbɛdɹʊm//

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

noun

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.
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, […].
I am in the bedroom.
2
The location of sexual activity.
"How are things in the bedroom?" asked the marriage therapist.
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.
3
obsoleteThe room atop of a bed suitable for sleeping on.

Etymology

From bed + room.

Forms

plural: bedrooms

becoming · The act or process by which something becomes.bed · A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest…Bedford · A place name: A number of places in the United Kingdom A…

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

bedside · A position at the side of one's bed.bedtime · The time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to…bee · A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the…

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