Meaning & use
bedroom
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Meanings
nouncountable
A room in a house or apartment used mainly for sleeping.
Grammar: Countable: a bedroom, two bedrooms. Often used with 'in' or 'into'.
Patterns
- a bedroom with something
- in the bedroom
- share a bedroom
The house has three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
She tidied her bedroom before going out.
They converted the attic into a small bedroom.
adjectivebefore a noun
Used before a noun to describe something connected with a bedroom or with a residential area.
Grammar: Always before a noun: 'bedroom window', 'bedroom community'. Not used after a verb.
Patterns
- bedroom window
- bedroom community
- bedroom suburb
The bedroom window looks out over the garden.
They live in a bedroom community outside the city.
He painted the bedroom walls a soft blue.
Word forms
| plural | bedrooms |
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Common combinations
- a spare bedroom
- Guests can stay in the spare bedroom.
- the master bedroom
- The master bedroom has its own bathroom.
- a bedroom window
- She opened the bedroom window to let in fresh air.
- bedroom community
- Many people commute from this bedroom community to the city.
- share a bedroom
- The two sisters share a bedroom.
Synonyms and how they differ
- room
- Room is a general word for any enclosed space in a building; bedroom specifically means a room for sleeping.
Word family
- bed noun
- A piece of furniture for sleeping on.
Commonly confused: bedroom or bedroll?
bedroom vs bedroll
A bedroll is portable bedding for camping; a bedroom is a room in a building.
Practice
Choose the correct sentence.
Choose one answer.
'Bedroom community' is a fixed phrase meaning a residential area where people live but commute elsewhere to work. The other options either repeat 'bedroom' or put the words in the wrong order.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “bedroom”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.