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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"It was a really hard time," she said, fearing she would have to move back in with her parents, into her childhood bedroom.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Newer listeners to Wolf’s alt-rock sound might be surprised to hear that in these early years, Wolf was singing, and occasionally rapping, over Billie Eilish-era bedroom pop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
There are also two bedroom suites and a two-car garage.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Arnold was a 9-year-old boy with an elongated ovoid head who enjoyed listening to jazz fusion under the skylight of his attic bedroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
He goes into his bedroom and closes the door.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The Mediterranean Revival-style estate, which sits on 2.76 acres in the Beverly Hills Post Office area, offers an enormous 16,079 square feet of living space, along with eight bedrooms and more than 10 bathrooms.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
The findings could eventually lead to aroma products made from Hinoki roots for bedrooms and other spaces intended for relaxation.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
The infrared technology is used in patients' bedrooms and can monitor breathing and pulse without staff having to enter the room.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The estate includes a roughly 16,000-square-foot Tuscan-style house with seven bedrooms and more than 500 feet of ocean frontage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
My great-uncle Milton’s apartment has two bedrooms, and I guess it’s considered big for New York.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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