bedsit

American  

[bed-sit] / ˈbɛdˌsɪt /

Or bed-sit

noun

British.

1. a one-room apartment that combines into the one area a bedroom, living room, and often kitchen facilities.

   My bedsit has a handy little kitchen, but I do have to share a bathroom with other tenants.

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bedsit British  

/ ˈbɛdˌsɪt /

noun

1. Also called: bedsitter.   bedsitting room.  a furnished sitting room containing sleeping accommodation and sometimes cooking and washing facilities

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Etymology

Origin of bedsit

First recorded in 1935–40; shortening of bed-sitting room

Example Sentences

Homelessness charity Shelter agreed with the government that "no child should be growing up in a B&B or mouldy bedsit".

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The sequel focuses on Dolphin, 33, still looking after her mum and feeling dejected with life living in a bedsit and working at a tattoo parlour.

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"His health is deteriorating, and he struggles to breathe so we currently have our living room set up like a bedsit."

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In his bedsit in west London, another of Obada's brothers, Nada, 25, kept glancing at his phone.

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Having suffered a number of strokes, she told the BBC she was finding it difficult to cover the rent at her bedsit.

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