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
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The Pegulas’ home features five bedroom suites, a theater, spacious living areas, outdoor living space, and a pool.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Inside their first-floor flat in the 10-storey building, Fabiana was in her mother's bedroom when she felt the earthquakes.
From BBC ● 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
She redecorated her childhood bedroom to match her adult aesthetic, tearing down her Twilight posters and choir awards and hanging a floral tapestry and framed landscapes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
I ran up to our bedroom, fiddled frantically with the combination lock and pulled Hannie’s drawer open.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
The brick abode features five bedrooms across 6,516 square feet on over 6 acres.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 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
On paper, the property pales in comparison with their previous dwelling, offering just 2,718 square feet of living space, including three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
They had neighborhood cookouts, and could paint and decorate the walls of their bedrooms with every assurance that they'd never have to pack their bags and leave.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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