queen-sized
- adjective
- /ˈkwinˌsaɪzd/
- She purchased a queen-sized mattress to replace her old one for better support.
- queen-sized bed
- queen-sized mattress
- queen-sized room
Examples
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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.
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I got a queen-sized bed.
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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.
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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
A bed or mattress size larger than a double and smaller than a king, about 60 by 80 inches
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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.