sickroom

[ sik-room, -roo m ]

/ ˈsɪkˌrum, -ˌrʊm /

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noun

a room in which a sick person is confined.

Words nearby sickroom

sickly, sickness, sickness benefit, sicko, sickout, sickroom, sicut patribus, sit deus nobis, sicyon, sid, sidalcea, sidamo

Origin of sickroom

First recorded in 1740–50; sick¹ + room

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Examples from the Web for sickroom

The voices in Susy's sickroom ceased to murmur; presently Mrs. Collins stole softly upstairs.
The Children of Wilton Chase|Mrs. L. T. Meade
He was not going to be shut up in a sickroom to please all the gossips of two hemispheres.
Sylvia's Marriage|Upton Sinclair
So it is that he brings air and cheer into the sickroom, and often enough, though not so often as he wishes, brings healing.
Underwoods|Robert Louis Stevenson
Shortly after, she had taken her usual place in the sickroom.
Agatha's Husband|Dinah Maria Craik (AKA: Dinah Maria Mulock)

As an American, the first whom they had seen in that distant island, they invited me into the sickroom.
Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2)|John Lloyd Stephens

British Dictionary definitions for sickroom

sickroom

/ (ˈsɪkˌruːm, -ˌrʊm) /

noun

a room to which a person who is ill is confined

a room set aside, as in a school, for people who are taken ill

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Medical definitions for sickroom

sickroom

[ sĭk′rōōm′, -rum′ ]

n.

A room occupied by a sick person.

sickroom

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Examples from the Web for sickroom

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