dressing room

American  

noun

• dressing rooms
  plural

1. a room for use in getting dressed, especially one for performers backstage in a theater, television studio, etc.

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dressing room British  

noun

1. theatre a room backstage for an actor to change clothing and to make up

2. any room used for changing clothes, such as one at a sports ground or off a bedroom

3. (in sport, esp soccer) a sense of camaraderie or team spirit

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dressing rooms
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of dressing room

First recorded in 1665–75

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

dressing room

Martin inherited a broken, expensive squad, which had lost the faith and connection with supporters and a dressing room which let egos get in the way and lacked work ethic.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Carrick has to manage the delicate dressing room dynamic at a point when he needs a collective focus on trying to win enough matches to keep him in a job.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Flowers, who grew up in Las Vegas and Utah and who shares three sons with his wife, spoke about the album in his dressing room last month a few hours before the Ford show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

When the song outgrows the blue-ribbon crowd, they’re flown to Los Angeles for one nationally televised performance before falling out in a bit of dressing room melodrama.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

We could hear the sounds of trumpets and saxophones and other instruments echoing through the hallways, and the choir doing warm-ups in a large room next to our dressing room.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio

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