bedroom
//ˈbɛdɹuːm//
Forms
- Plural
- bedrooms
Definitions
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.
- I am in the bedroom.
- 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, […].
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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2252
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
Etymology
From bed + room.