bedroom
(bedruːm )
Word forms: bedrooms
countable noun A1
A bedroom is a room used for sleeping in.
...the spare bedroom.
...a two-bedroom apartment.
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Launching this month are 16 six-person log cabins, each with a sauna, a fireplace and a glass bedroom ceiling.
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Icicles used to hang from the bedroom ceiling, and a visitor reported that the table silver was coated in coal dust.
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Another caller thought there was a bat on his bedroom ceiling - but it turned out to be a damp patch.
The Sun
He studded his bedroom ceiling with tiny convex mirrors to reflect candlelight.
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There are stains on the bedroom ceiling and a gooey mess above the bath where the tiles should be.
Times, Sunday Times
He ran to a bedroom closet with a window where he sometimes played.
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Photography grabbed him at 12, when he was given his fi rst camera, and he installed a darkroom in his bedroom closet.
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Graffiti from her childhood visits are preserved in an upstairs bedroom closet.
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On the inside door of her bedroom closet, she keeps a list of secret wishes that she wants to come true.
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He set up a studio in his bedroom closet to carve and paint cast bronze miniatures.
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The rays were concentrated on to bedroom curtains, which caught alight.
The Sun
In summer, bedroom curtains need to admit more air and exclude more light, while in winter they will ideally insulate the room.
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We also have the bedroom curtains open too.
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Did he open the bedroom curtains the way he said he did?
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She saw me putting the bins out and asked me to help her get some bedroom curtains down.
The Sun
The anxiousness persists and Barnaby gets up, pulls on his dressing gown and opens his parents ' bedroom door.
SEA MUSIC (2003)
And meanwhile her poor old Dad is left outside the bedroom door making futile attempts to talk to her.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
During the night two young partisans sat on guard at the bedroom door listening to murmured conversation.
Whicker's War
The bedroom door led to a vast lounge with a sofa and two overstuffed armchairs.
DESPERADOES
Francis thought of a dark passage at Faberdown, Veronica's smothered laugh heard through a flimsy, panelled bedroom door.
The Killing Times (Treason in arms) (1986)
He kept the medal in a bedroom drawer for 20 years.
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This tick had been through a washing machine cycle and been stored in a bedroom drawer for a week.
Times, Sunday Times
Bedroom drawers are the top choice with 34 per cent, while 12 per cent would look in a wardrobe and four per cent would look in a fridge.
The Sun
I steal underwear from my friends and have taken things from shops, clothes lines, bedroom drawers and even laundry baskets.
The Sun
No boxer shorts dumped on the bedroom floor?
The Sun (2014)
However, his suitcase lay empty on their bedroom floor and Finn lay sprawled on the bed, fully dressed and loose limbed.
JUST BETWEEN US (2002)
When the alarm went off, the marbles clattered down on to my lino bedroom floor.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It was not a huge leap for the company, which was founded in 1972, to go from making kitchen cabinets to bedroom furniture.
Times, Sunday Times
Sofas, flat-packs and bedroom furniture led the way amid a series of promotions.
The Sun
Over a two-year period, he charged 500 for new flooring to the taxpayer, a new wardrobe, lighting, a washing machine and bedroom furniture.
Times, Sunday Times
This could be, for example, companies that design and sell kitchens or bedroom furniture.
Times, Sunday Times
The flat has been renovated and modernised with a fitted kitchen and bedroom furniture installed in preparation for his wedding.
Times, Sunday Times
The flat was quiet but the bedroom light was on.
The Sun
Turning off your bedroom light may not seem a big political statement.
Times, Sunday Times
It's the thing in the middle of the wire you get in a bedroom light, so you don't have to get of bed.
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Further, he advises against keeping the main bedroom light on throughout the night.
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It felt to her like the bedroom lights were flashing and bells were clanging.
Christianity Today
Does he stay up all night learning his lines and then practising them in front of his bedroom mirror?
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It took place behind closed doors in front of your bedroom mirror.
Times, Sunday Times
I preened in front of the bedroom mirror and wondered at it.
Times, Sunday Times
I tried this look in my bedroom mirror.
The Sun
Even air guitarists can look cool from time to time as they pose in front of a bedroom mirror.
Times, Sunday Times
From staring at an idol's photograph on your bedroom wall, to meeting him face to face as a colleague, to becoming an idol yourself.
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One bedroom wall was fully open to the view.
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The elder son took it home and unceremoniously tacked it up on his bedroom wall.
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We all have pictures that have been propped up against the bedroom wall waiting to be go up — do that this weekend.
The Sun
Since doing so, we have discovered damp in the front bedroom wall.
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I am back in my childhood bedroom, teddy-bear wallpaper almost visible through the paint.
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So, she's here, in her pink childhood bedroom, for the foreseeable.
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She was able to show that her childhood bedroom was intact, she had an office there, a caravan and a shed filled with belongings.
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Waking up, oversized in my childhood bedroom.
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Luckily, many of us are able to offer the old childhood bedroom to help out.
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The family made alterations to the house, installing an extra bedroom.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Turning a garage into a playroom, study, extra bedroom or games room is one of the easiest and least expensive ways to extend.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
One way to cover this is to see if you can stretch to a property with an extra bedroom you could rent out.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
By contrast Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms, 52 royal and guest bedrooms and 78 bathrooms.
The Sun (2012)
The guest bedroom also has an en suite bathroom, with a glass surround to the basin and deep, mirrored cupboards above.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The guest bedroom, too, has archetypal green and pleasant views.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
She was found at about 10am in the rear bedroom where she had been sleeping.
Times, Sunday Times
We saw flames out of a rear bedroom window.
The Sun
We did what's known as a '360' of the property [which means they circle the house] and discovered the fire was coming from a rear bedroom.
The Sun
Retro fitting of bathrooms to the earlier houses of this type was easily accomplished by partitioning the rear bedroom.
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The bathrooms of these properties occupy a small extension on the back of the house, as opposed to the smaller properties, whose bathrooms were created by partitioning the rear bedroom.
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Most will be studio flats but the bigger ones will have a separate bedroom.
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A separate bedroom provides first-time buyers with the option to let a room if their monthly mortgage payments rise.
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It has 10ft-high ceilings, five fireplaces, a library, a private gym and eight bathrooms, as well as four separate bedroom wings.
Times, Sunday Times
Our room had a spacious lounge with pull-out bed, separate bedroom with twin beds and a large balcony with sea views.
The Sun
He slept in a separate bedroom for six months.
The Sun
His family, who live in a ramshackle house in which five people share a bedroom, said that they had often struggled for money.
Times, Sunday Times
Neither one of us wrote a check for college or even had to share a bedroom in our later years at home.
Christianity Today
In the air force, no one had to share a bedroom, he said.
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We go out together, eat together, and still share a bedroom in our childhood home.
The Sun
Two people share a bedroom, sleeping in bunks.
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What embarrassments were pinned onto your teenage bedroom walls?
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Go into that teenage bedroom, after donning the proper protective clothing, and take a deep breath.
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I isolated in my teenage bedroom for a week, while they assessed me from the bookshelves in the corridor like zookeepers.
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I thumb through hundreds of teenage bedroom interiors.
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It was weird going back to my teenage bedroom and sharing it with my son.
The Sun
Below is a twin bedroom and shower room.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
This secluded 18th-century farmhouse has a big double room with a connected twin bedroom.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He ushered me along, up a creaky staircase and down a narrow corridor to a twin bedroom with a low ceiling.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Translations:
Chinese: 卧室
Japanese: 寝室