en
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9.9
- noun
- /ɛn/
- Specialized
- But it's kind of this, and then a kitchenette, an en suite, and then I've got a fold out couch bed, but it's too small for me to actually fold it out.
- mise en
- en bloc
Examples
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The adjacent small room where he slept did not have a bathroom en suite.
Academic text (2010) -
Yeah, we took the double room with the en suite.
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I booked an en suite double with a view of the bay.
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Oh, that bathroom's mine, the en suite.
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I believe Bernie has a spare room with an en suite bathroom.
Fiction book (1997) -
The hotel room features a comfortable double bed and a private en suite bathroom.
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Each cabin comes with its own en suite, ensuring guests have private facilities.
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For a more luxurious stay, consider booking a suite with an en suite attached.
Synonyms
A small space used in printing and page design
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
8.8
The way things like the background, objects, and lights are arranged in a film or play to create a mood
- Jargon
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6.9
The preparation and tidy arrangement of ingredients and tools before cooking
- Specialized
1
7.4
A short horizontal line used between numbers to show a range, or between words to show a connection
- Specialized
1
9.9
A chess move where a pawn captures an opponent's pawn as if it had moved only one square
1
9.9
A piece of beef cooked rare, covered in mushroom paste and wrapped in pastry
- Archaic
1
9.9
To call many people who are not soldiers into the army during an emergency
How Wide
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word en comes from the letter n, because early printers used the width of that letter as a small measure. It is half an em, so an en dash or an en space is about the width of an n.