bedroom
Americannoun
adjective
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concerned mainly with love affairs or sex.
The movie is a typical bedroom comedy.
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sexually inviting; amorous.
With her husky voice and sultry bedroom eyes, who wouldn't fall for her?
He gave me a slow, seductive bedroom smile.
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inhabited largely by commuters.
a bedroom community.
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(of a musician) producing amateur recordings using home studio equipment.
Her rise from shy bedroom recording artist to sold-out shows and pop star confidence has been amazing.
noun
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a room furnished with beds or used for sleeping
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(modifier) containing references to sex
a bedroom comedy
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bedroom
Explanation
A bedroom is a room in a house for the bed, so it’s mainly used for sleeping. If you live in a one-bedroom apartment, it has exactly one room for the bed. To sound old fashioned, call it your bedchamber. If your home has three bedrooms, you can describe it as a "three-bedroom house." While you might do homework, watch TV, or even entertain friends in your bedroom, it probably has a bed in it, and the main purpose of the room is sleeping. You can also use the term "bedroom community" to mean a suburb — a town that's close enough to a city that people can commute there for work and come back to their own bedrooms at night.
Vocabulary lists containing bedroom
Example Sentences
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"It woke my kids up from the bedroom upstairs and one of them said they thought they could hear a pig squealing because of the noise I was making."
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Homeowners struggle to get a permit to add a bedroom, and taxpayers can’t get through to the agency that fleeces them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
We first meet her in her inner sanctum, her extremely girly bedroom in the depths of her extremely girly sorority, Delta Nu.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
The primary bedroom features enough space for a king-sized bed, and French doors here open to a balcony.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
The smells of breakfast wafted up the steps and into the open door of his bedroom.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
It offers four bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, and more than 3,600 square feet of living space.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
The previous owners had already done some nuts-and-bolts upgrades, and Walsh and Stewart set about converting the attic into two extra bedrooms and a bathroom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Its catalog offers floor plans of two to four bedrooms with style choices of basic Craftsman or modern.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Park Lane and Beltway Homes are working on a development of 256 homes, from three bedrooms up to five.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
The Fischers enjoyed the amenities of a relatively opulent suite, with two bedrooms and an unobstructed view—across Mokhovaya Street—of the Kremlin, Red Square, and the splendor of the towers of St. Basil’s.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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