day room

or dayroom


noun
  1. a room at an institution, as on a military base, providing facilities for leisure activities.

  2. (in a hospital) a recreation room for ambulatory patients.

Origin of day room

1
First recorded in 1815–25

Words Nearby day room

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How to use day room in a sentence

  • One facetious sportsman had once made a rule of setting the senior day-room chimney on fire every term.

    The Gold Bat | P. G. Wodehouse
  • Brewing in the senior day-room was a mere vulgar brawl, lacking all the refining influences of the study.

    The Gold Bat | P. G. Wodehouse
  • But he liked to choose his accomplices, and the gay sparks of the senior day-room did not appeal to him.

    The Gold Bat | P. G. Wodehouse
  • He sat at the top of the table in the day-room and gazed about, seeking someone on whom to vent his wrath.

    The Loom of Youth | Alec Waugh
  • A (for the Lower School did their preparation in the day-room) will do me a hundred lines every day till the end of the term.

    The Loom of Youth | Alec Waugh

British Dictionary definitions for day room

day room

noun
  1. a communal living room in a residential institution such as a hospital

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