bedroom

bedroom — noun

1. a room in a home or hotel where someone sleeps and keeps a bed

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Definition

a room in a home or hotel where someone sleeps and keeps a bed

Example

Lena opened the bedroom window before making the bed.

bedroom window / make the bed

Two brothers share a small bedroom at the end of the hall.

share a bedroom

Common collocations
  • bedroom window
  • bedroom door
  • share a bedroom
  • guest bedroom
  • hotel bedroom
Synonyms
  • room

    broader; it does not specifically mean the room for sleeping

  • guest room

    a bedroom prepared especially for visitors

  • bedchamber

    formal or old-fashioned, not the usual modern everyday word

Grammar Patterns

sleep in the bedroom

share a bedroom

go into the bedroom

Usage Note

Usually countable. Common modifiers include main, spare, and guest, and speakers often talk about bedroom doors, windows, and floors.

Common Mistakes

The children sleep at the bedroom.
The children sleep in the bedroom.
Use in when someone is inside a room.

bedroom — adjective

Synonym discussion

Sense: noun/1

Bedroom is the normal everyday word for the room where someone sleeps. Room is much broader: it can mean any part of a building, so it does not tell you whether people sleep there, eat there, or work there. Guest room is a bedroom kept mainly for visitors, not the usual sleeping space of the people who live in the home. Dorm room is a student bedroom in a school or university building and often suggests a shared space. Use bedroom when the sleeping purpose matters clearly. For example, Put the clean sheets in the bedroom is more exact than Put the clean sheets in the room.

bedroom ↗room ↗guest roomdorm room

Common collocations

Nouns

  • bedroom window
  • bedroom door
  • bedroom floor
  • bedroom scene

Phrases

  • share a bedroom
  • go to the bedroom
  • main bedroom
  • guest bedroom

Prepositions

  • in the bedroom
  • into the bedroom

Etymology

Old EnglishMiddle EnglishEnglish

Bedroom is a compound made in English from bed and room. Both parts are very old English words, and together they came to mean the room in a house used for sleeping. Later, English also developed a figurative adjective use for things connected with sexual activity.