bedsitting room
- noun
- /ˈbɛdˌsɪtɪŋ ruːm/
- UK
:
habitación de estar
- The university offers affordable bedsitting rooms for students on a tight budget.
Examples
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Her bedsitting room was cozy but a bit cramped when visitors stayed over.
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I rented a small bedsitting room in London.
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He lived in a small bedsitting room above the corner shop.
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The bedsitting rooms here are quite cozy.
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He lived in a small bedsitting room above the corner shop.
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Her bedsitting room was cozy but a bit cramped when visitors stayed over.
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I rented a small bedsitting room in London.
Synonyms
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6.7
A small furnished room used for both living and sleeping
A small furnished room that is both a living room and a bedroom, often with a tiny kitchen
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
bedsitting + room
The meaning is directly compositional: 'bed' + 'sitting' + 'room' clearly signals a room that functions as both a sitting room and a bedroom, so a learner who knows the parts can infer a combined living/sleeping space. This concept is also cross-linguistically common (studio/one-room living), making the phrase immediately understandable to a B1 learner despite the slightly unusual concatenation 'bedsitting.'
Etymology
Bedsitting room comes from the simple idea of one room used for both sleeping and sitting. Landlords often made one space do two jobs—a bed and a sitting area—so the name stuck and now it means 'a single furnished room that is both a bedroom and a living room'.