bedroom
See also: bed-room
English

A bedroom.
Alternative forms
- bed-room (archaic)
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɛdˌɹum/, /ˈbɛdɹʊm/
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Noun
bedroom (plural bedrooms)
- A room in a house 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.
Audio (US) (file)
- I am in the bedroom.
Synonyms
- bedchamber (archaic), sleeping pad, sleeping quarters
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Translations
room in a house where a bed is kept for sleeping
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