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bedroom

noun
/ˈbɛdɹuːm/UK/ˈbɛdˌɹum/US

Etymology

From bed + room.

  1. inherited from *(H)rewH-✻ — “to root; to rip, tear”
  2. inherited from *rūmą✻ — “room”
  3. inherited from *rūm✻ — “room”
  4. inherited from rūm — “room, space”
  5. inherited from roum — “room, space”
  6. compounded as bedroom — “bed + room”

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • 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, […].
    • I am in the bedroom.

  2. The location of sexual activity.

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

The neighborhood

Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at bedroom. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01bedroom02room03opportunity04profit05exchange06trading07trade08investment09vestment10robe

A definitional loop anchored at bedroom. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at bedroom

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA