sleeping room
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1.0
- noun
- Specialized
:
dormitorio
- I wandered along the upstairs corridor, which all the sleeping rooms led off.
Examples
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Our meeting room fee is based on the number of sleeping rooms used.
Academic text (1996) -
She retreated into her sleeping room, locked the door, and wouldn't come out even to eat.
Fiction book (1997) -
If you wake and cannot sleep, do something outside of the sleeping room.
Academic text (2006) -
It can be used as a sleeping room for guests, a reception area, a party site, and a formal venue for functions such as funerals.
Academic text (1997) -
The two-story buildings to the left offered sleeping rooms for cross-country truckers.
Academic text (1998) -
As soon as the smith had turned the corner, Master Esselin ducked out of one of the sleeping rooms in the corridor, his expression aggrieved.
Fiction book (1991) -
There was nothing familiar about the room they gave him, but he hadn't been in any of the Ramada's sleeping rooms, just the lounge and the lobby.
Fiction book (2000) -
A set of the latest chromolithographs, featuring romantic renderings of Mecca's religious architecture, is hung on the wall across the main entrance to her reception and sleeping room.
Academic text (2009) -
Now, in the predawn hours, most of these derelicts had fallen asleep in pools of spilled beer or staggered off to the common sleeping room or their lodgings elsewhere in town.
Fiction book (1992) -
She decorated her sleeping room with soft colors to create a calming atmosphere.
Synonyms
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1.0
A room in a house where people sleep
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1.0
A private room where hotel guests sleep and use a bathroom
229
4.0
A private room used by a person for work or rest
51
1.0
A room in a motel where people sleep for a short time
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1.6
A bedroom in a building where students live, often shared with others
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1.7
A room for visitors to sleep in
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7.2
A bedroom in a large or old house
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1.0
A room with a bed for visitors who stay overnight
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2.2
A large sleeping room in a school or other place shared by several people
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3.4
A place for sleeping, often in a hotel or train
How Private
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a room used primarily for sleeping' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'sleeping' (the state/action of sleep, functioning here as a modifier) with 'room' (an indoor space). This straightforward modifier+noun composition is common in English and cross-linguistically predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both words can reliably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Sleeping room comes from a very simple idea: a room used for sleeping. That's why it means 'a room used primarily for sleeping', like a 'bedroom'.