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
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But it’s the romantic material that really motivates this 32-year-old, who records in a booth in her bedroom next to an altar with a crystal ball and charms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
He remembered that in Sheila's final weeks, his wife was sleeping on the floor of her mother's bedroom to make sure she was alright.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
He says we’re heating rooms nobody uses, and he’s right that nobody has slept in the fourth bedroom since our youngest left 12 years ago.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
The ADU measures 700 square feet and includes a large bedroom, a bathroom that has an opening to the outside for easy access to the pool, and a large closet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 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
The power of the short film ‘All the Empty Rooms’ lies in simply showing the bedrooms of children killed in school shootings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Set on an acre overlooking L.A., the house spans 22,300 square feet with eight bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, an elevator, a movie theater and a swimming pool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
The home, which was built in 2019, comes complete with nine bedrooms and 8.5 bathrooms spread across 12,050 square feet.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Set on about 2.19 acres on the Intracoastal Waterway, the house is roughly 18,000 square feet with seven bedrooms, two offices and a fitness room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
I realize we all hide some parts of ourselves, crowding them into our bedrooms, where only our best friends can see.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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