Meaning & use
chill room
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Meanings
nouncountable
A refrigerated room used for cooling food or other products to a low temperature, but not freezing them.
Grammar: Countable; you can say 'a chill room' or 'chill rooms'. Typically used in food production and storage.
Patterns
- a chill room for something
- store something in a chill room
- a chill room at a facility
The bakery stores its fresh cream cakes in a chill room before delivery.
After cooking, the meals are quickly moved to a chill room to cool down safely.
The new chill room can hold up to five hundred trays of produce.
nouncountableBritishinformal
A room in a workplace, school, or public building where people can relax and calm down.
Grammar: Countable; often used in British English. May imply an informal space for taking a break.
Patterns
- a chill room for someone
- go to the chill room
- use the chill room
The office has a chill room with soft chairs and a coffee machine.
Students can go to the chill room if they feel stressed before an exam.
The hospital opened a chill room for staff to take short breaks.
Word forms
| plural | chill rooms |
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Common combinations
- chill room temperature
- The chill room temperature is kept at around 3°C.
- chill room storage
- The company invested in new chill room storage for its dairy products.
- walk-in chill room
- The restaurant has a walk-in chill room for fresh ingredients.
- chill room facility
- The factory added a chill room facility to extend shelf life.
Synonyms and how they differ
- cold room
- Very similar, but often used for any cold storage, including freezers; chill room specifically means above freezing.
- cooler
- A cooler is usually a small container or appliance, not a whole room.
- chiller
- A chiller is a machine or cabinet that cools, not a room you can walk into.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: chill room or chillout room?
chill room vs chillout room
A chillout room is a space for relaxing, often with music; a chill room in a food context is for cold storage.
Practice
The fish is kept in a _____ to stay fresh but not frozen.
Choose one answer.
A chill room keeps food cold but above freezing, which suits fresh fish. A freezer would freeze it, an oven would cook it, and a pantry is for dry goods.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “chill room”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.