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queen-sized

queen-sized

2 3.0
A bed or mattress larger than a double and smaller than a king
  • adjective
  • /ˈkwinˌsaɪzd/
translation icon : tamaño queen
  • She purchased a queen-sized mattress to replace her old one for better support.
  • queen-sized bed
  • queen-sized mattress
  • queen-sized room

Examples

  • At the hotel, we ate on the queen-sized bed and watched television until midnight, when we had to go to sleep.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • The hotel room featured a cozy queen-sized bed, perfect for a comfortable night's sleep.

  • I got a queen-sized bed.

  • Without her, my queen-sized bed would feel really lonely!

    Blog text (20)
  • Finally, she settled on a room with a queen-sized bed and a tub.

    Blog text (25)
  • We even have a DVD player, a microwave, and a queen-sized bed.

  • Paul had a queen-sized bed at his place, and Aunt Marjory's bed was a double.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • The room was quite large and airy, with two queen-sized double beds and a sitting area beside the window with three comfortable chairs.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • She has her own room, her own queen-sized bed fluffed up with pillows in a room filled with her knick-knacks, a room made cozy because it is hers.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • She sat erect on the queen-sized bed, under a lapboard strewn with papers and pens, an island of erudition in a sea of books, notes, and manuscripts.

    Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

queen-size
vsqueen-sized
5 3.2

A bed or mattress size larger than a double and smaller than a king, about 60 by 80 inches

is the adjectival form used before a noun rather than the name

How Big

king-size
8 3.2
queen-sized
2 3.0
full-size
21 2.5

Surface Forms

queen-sized positive

Morphology

queen-sized = queen + size (transparent) = queen + size

The meaning is a direct compositional combination: the size associated with 'queen' (i.e., a standard mattress dimension).

Etymology

Queen-sized comes from using queen as the name for a bed size, with 'double' smaller and 'king' larger. So a queen-sized bed is bigger than a double but smaller than a king, which makes it roomy without taking too much space.