sickroom

[sik-room, -room]

noun

1. a room in which a sick person is confined.

sickroom

/ -ˌrʊm, ˈsɪkˌruːm /

noun

1. a room to which a person who is ill is confined

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of sickroom¹

First recorded in 1740–50; sick ¹ + room

Example Sentences

Advice about food preparation for "invalids", "convalescents" or "the sickroom" would commonly take up an entire section of cookbooks.

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To prevent infected air from seeping out of the sickroom, Fox suggests wedging towels in the gap under the bedroom door.

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Bliss refused to let him into the sickroom, claiming that Baxter would disturb Garfield.

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Her mother read Hans Christian Andersen stories as a vaporizer sent puffs of yellow steam into the sickroom.

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He says he is a doctor “offering cures” but always also the patient in the sickroom.

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