bedroom

See also: bed room and bed-room

English

A bedroom.

Alternative forms

• bed room, bed-room (archaic)

Etymology

From bed +‎ room.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛdˌɹum/, /ˈbɛdɹʊm/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

bedroom (plural bedrooms)

2. A room in a house, apartment, hotel or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.

   Please don't enter my bedroom without knocking.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “The Elopers”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 33:

     The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     I am in the bedroom.

     Audio (US):

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3. (euphemistic) The location of sexual activity.

   "How are things in the bedroom?" asked the marriage therapist.

   • 2023 August 11, Jake Register, “Your Sex Horoscope for the Weekend”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[1]:

     If you’re single, you might be going through a dry spell, or if you’re taken, life in the bedroom has become more routine and less of a spontaneous, fun activity.

Synonyms

• bedchamber (archaic), sleeping quarters

Hypernyms

• room

Hyponyms

• master bedroom

Derived terms

• bedrobe
• bedroomed
• bedroomful
• bedroomish
• bedroomless
• bedroomlike
• bedroom nation
• bedroomy
• bedsit
• multibedroom

 

Compound words and expressions

• bedroom deal
• bedroom-eyed
• bedroom nation
• bedroom pop
• bedroom set
• bedroom suburb
• bedroom town
• dead bedroom
• master bedroom
• primary bedroom

 

Related terms

• bedroom community
• bedroom eyes
• bedroom state
• bedroom tax
• in the bedroom

 

Translations

room in a house where a bed is kept for sleeping

• Abkhaz: ацәарҭа (acʷarta)
• Adyghe: зыщычъыехэрэ ун (zəśəĉəjexɛrɛ wun)
• Afrikaans: slaapkamer (af)
• Amharic: መኝታ ቤት (mäñta bet), መኝታ ክፍል (mäñta kəfl)
• Arabic: غُرْفَة نَوْم f (ḡurfat nawm)

  Egyptian Arabic: أوضة نوم f (ūdat nawm)

• Armenian: ննջարան (hy) (nnǰaran), ննջասենյակ (hy) (nnǰasenyak)
• Azerbaijani: yataq otağı
• Basque: logela (eu), etzaleku
• Belarusian: спа́льня f (spálʹnja)
• Bulgarian: спа́лня f (spálnja)
• Burmese: အိပ်ခန်း (my) (iphkan:)
• Catalan: dormitori (ca) m, cambra (ca) f
• Chechen: дуьйшу чоь (düüšu čö)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 臥室／卧室 (ngo⁶ sat¹)

  Mandarin: 臥室／卧室 (zh) (wòshì), 寢室／寝室 (zh) (qǐnshì)

• Czech: ložnice (cs)
• Danish: soveværelse (da) n
• Dutch: slaapkamer (nl) f
• Eastern Mari: малымвер (malymver)
• Esperanto: dormĉambro
• Estonian: magamistuba (et)
• Ewe: anyimlɔxɔ
• Faroese: sovikamar n
• Finnish: makuuhuone (fi)
• French: chambre (fr) f, chambre à coucher (fr) f, dortoir (fr) m, piaule (fr) f (slang)
• Georgian: საძინებელი ოთახი (saʒinebeli otaxi), საწოლი ოთახი (sac̣oli otaxi)
• German: Schlafzimmer (de) n, Schlafstube (de) f
• Greek: κρεβατοκάμαρα (el) f (krevatokámara), υπνοδωμάτιο (el) n (ypnodomátio)

  Ancient: κοιτών m (koitṓn), θάλαμος m (thálamos)

• Greenlandic: sinittarfik
• Gujarati: સૂવાનો ઓરડો (sūvāno oraḍo), શયનખંડ (śayankhaṇḍ)
• Hawaiian: lumi moe
• Hebrew: חדר שינה \ חֲדַר־שֵׁנָה m (khadár-sheiná)
• Hindi: शयनकक्ष (hi) (śayankakṣ), ख़्वाबगाह f (xvābgāh)
• Hungarian: háló, hálószoba (hu)
• Icelandic: svefnherbergi (is) n
• Ido: dormo-chambro (io)
• Inari Sami: uáđđimviste
• Indonesian: kamar tidur (id), ruang tidur
• Ingush: бийша бада цӏа (biı̇ša bada cʼa)
• Irish: seomra leapa m, seomra codlata m
• Italian: camera da letto f, camera (it) f
• Japanese: 寝室 (ja) (しんしつ, shinshitsu)
• Kazakh: жатын бөлме (jatyn bölme), жатаржай (jatarjai)
• Khmer: បន្ទប់ដេក (bɑntup deek), បន្ទប់គេង (bɑntup keing)
• Khoekhoe: ǁkhom ǃnâ-oms
• Korean: 침실(寢室) (ko) (chimsil)
• Kyrgyz: уктоого арналган бөлмө (uktoogo arnalgan bölmö)
• Ladino: kamareta d'echar
• Lao: ຫ້ອງນອນ (hǭng nǭn)
• Latin: cubiculum (la) n
• Latvian: guļamistaba
• Lithuanian: miegamasis (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Schlofzëmmer n
• Macedonian: спа́лна со́ба f (spálna sóba), спа́лна f (spálna) (ellipsis)
• Malay: bilik tidur (ms)
• Malayalam: കിടപ്പുമുറി (ml) (kiṭappumuṟi)
• Maltese: kamra tas-sodda, dormitorju
• Maori: rūma moe
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: унтлагын өрөө (untlagyn öröö)

• Navajo: daʼnjah, daʼnjahí góneʼ
• Norman: chambre f (Jersey), chàmbre f (Guernsey)
• Northern Sami: oađđenlatnja
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: soveværelse n, soverom n

  Nynorsk: soverom n

• Occitan: dormitòri (oc) m, cambra (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic: ложьница (ložĭnica)
• Old English: bedcleofa m
• Old French: chambre, cambre, canbre
• Pannonian Rusyn: спальня f (spalʹnja)
• Persian: اتاق خواب (otâq-e xâb), اطاق خواب (otâq-e xâb), خوابگاه (fa) (xâbgâh)
• Plautdietsch: Schlopstow m
• Polish: sypialnia (pl) f, szlafsztuba (pl) f (Upper Silesia)
• Portuguese: quarto (pt) m, dormitório (pt) m
• Quechua: puñuna wasi
• Romanian: dormitor (ro) n, dormitoare n pl
• Romansch: chombra da durmir f, chombra f
• Russian: спа́льня (ru) f (spálʹnja)
• Samoan: potumoe
• Scots: chaumer
• Scottish Gaelic: seòmar-leapa m, seòmar-cadail m, seòmar-laighe m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спавао́ница f, спаваћа соба f

  Roman: spavaónica (sh) f, spavaća soba f

• Slovak: spálňa (sk) f
• Slovene: spalnica (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: spańska śpa f

  Upper Sorbian: spańska śpa f

• Spanish: alcoba (es) m (now especially formal or literary usage, except Colombia), dormitorio (es) m (especially formal usage), cuarto (es) m, habitación (es) (especially Spain, formal usage in Latin America), pieza (es) (Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay), recámara (Mexico)
• Sranan Tongo: sribikamra
• Swahili: chumba cha kulala (sw), pakulalia
• Swedish: sovrum (sv) n
• Tagalog: silid-tulugan, silid-higaan
• Tajik: хонаи хоб (xona-yi xob), хобгоҳ (xobgoh)
• Tatar: йокы бүлмәсе (yoqı bülmäse)
• Telugu: పడకగది (te) (paḍakagadi)
• Thai: ห้องนอน (th) (hɔ̂ng-nɔɔn)
• Tibetan: ཉལ་ཁང (nyal khang)
• Tok Pisin: rum slip
• Turkish: yatak odası (tr)
• Turkmen: ýatylýan otag
• Tuvaluan: potumoe
• Ukrainian: спа́льня f (spálʹnja)
• Urdu: خواب گاہ f (xvāb gāh), آرام گاہ (ur) (ārām gāh), شبستان (śabistān)
• Uzbek: yotoqxona (uz), yotoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: phòng ngủ, buồng ngủ
• Volapük: slipacem
• Welsh: ystafell wely (cy) f, llofft f
• Yiddish: שלאָפֿצימער m (shloftsimer)
• Zhuang: fuengz, rug

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