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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"So this rap chart is going to give all the newcomers and a lot of people who are producing in their bedroom a chance to be seen and heard."
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
Leanne Duff, from Plymouth, Devon, said she felt "violated" after every room in her house was damaged in April, including her 13-year-old son's bedroom.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
This bedroom also includes a sizable walk-in closet that’s equipped with countless storage and organizational solutions.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Amanda Presswood was in her upstairs bedroom last month when she checked her Ring doorbell camera to see if it was raining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
Karli and I used to watch them from our bedroom window, and always wonder what they were saying.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
There are 21 bedrooms, 26.5 bathrooms, seven kitchens, offices, a library, and an indoor swimming pool.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Three of the additional bedrooms also include en suite bathrooms.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
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 bedrooms on either side of the corridor had their numbers painted on the doors in gold.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
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