box room
Save This Word!
noun British.
a storage room, especially one for trunks, suitcases, etc.
QUIZZES
QUIZ YOURSELF ON "WAS" VS. "WERE"!
Were you ready for a quiz on this topic? Well, here it is! See how well you can differentiate between the uses of "was" vs. "were" in this quiz.
Question 1 of 7
“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.
Meet Grammar Coach
Improve Your Writing
Origin of box room
First recorded in 1925–30
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2021
Example sentences from the Web for box room
That night Hildebrand secretly slept in the boxroom, on a pile of newspapers, with a rag-bag and a hearthrug over him.
Oswald Bastable and Others|Edith NesbitLooking out of the boxroom window was like looking down on the top of a green forest, Phyllis always thought.
Oswald Bastable and Others|Edith NesbitWithin was a pitch-dark cupboard-like boxroom, hot, stuffy, and smelling of dust and old leather.
Crome Yellow|Aldous Huxley
British Dictionary definitions for box room
boxroom
/ (ˈbɒksˌruːm, -ˌrʊm) /
noun
a small room or large cupboard in which boxes, cases, etc, may be stored
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012