day room

or dayroom

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.

day room

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of day room¹

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

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

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Brewing in the senior day-room was a mere vulgar brawl, lacking all the refining influences of the study.

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But he liked to choose his accomplices, and the gay sparks of the senior day-room did not appeal to him.

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He sat at the top of the table in the day-room and gazed about, seeking someone on whom to vent his wrath.

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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.

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