bedroom
Americannoun
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bedrooms
plural
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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The tall man took Rita back to the bedroom and asked where their phones were.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
She had concerns that isolation during the Covid19 lockdown might have "come to a head" and that she had found Noah crying in his bedroom earlier that day.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The third floor features four en suite bedrooms, along with a primary bedroom facing the Pacific Ocean, with a spa-worthy bath, fireplace, and an ocean-facing deck.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
The city has for decades been a bedroom community for commuters to the East Bay Area and San José.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The interior was neat and cozy—one bedroom, a good-sized kitchen, a narrow dining space, and two wing-backed chairs in front of a hearth.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
"Residents are concerned about lights shining into bedrooms and repeated vehicle noise," he added.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
As well as offering interest-free deposit loans, Streets2Homes has nine bedrooms across two Victorian cottages in the town.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The 5,791-square-foot layout features five bedrooms and six baths.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
A Zillow post on the property says it has three bedrooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Profile House at Franconia Notch had its own private railway line to Bethlehem Junction eight miles away; its grounds held twenty-one cottages, each with up to twelve bedrooms.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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