day room
or dayroom
a room at an institution, as on a military base, providing facilities for leisure activities.
(in a hospital) a recreation room for ambulatory patients.
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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. WodehouseBrewing in the senior day-room was a mere vulgar brawl, lacking all the refining influences of the study.
The Gold Bat | P. G. WodehouseBut 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. WodehouseHe 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 WaughA (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
a communal living room in a residential institution such as a hospital
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