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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In another incident, a couple in Scotland woke to find a shirtless man in their hotel bedroom after he was mistakenly given a key card to their door.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
He recently learned that she’d scrawled a Bible verse — Proverbs 3:5-6 — in black Sharpie on the door of her bedroom at her mother’s house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Each bedroom is carefully designed to maximize privacy, with each offering stunning views of the ocean.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Over the months, the rooftop of his three-storey building has become a communal bedroom.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Then he stood in the middle of the bedroom, his thoughts whirling.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
The home, which was built in 1920, measured 2,908 square feet, including five bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
"They are asking estate agents very practical questions about temperatures during the last heatwave, whether it is possible to ventilate the home at night, and whether people sleep well in the bedrooms," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The 1,350-square-foot original structure boasts two bedrooms, one bathroom, a living room with a glass wall and Bear Valley stone fireplace, and a kitchen with warm-wood cabinets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
She became a surrogate partly to help parents who couldn’t conceive and to fund a future—“four bedrooms, five baths,” she told the Journal—for her husband, daughter and herself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Sandi followed her sisters into their side-by-side bedrooms.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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