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stateroom

stateroom

16 5.8
A private cabin on a ship or train with a bed and bathroom
  • noun
  • /ˈsteɪtərum/
translation icon : camarote
  • Marshall opens the stateroom door and slowly slides into the corridor.
  • a private stateroom
  • master stateroom
  • a stateroom with berth

Examples

  • I'm afraid she's booked me a first-class stateroom.

  • Directly ahead was the forward stateroom, which had been converted into an office and file storage room.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Gentlemen, I might want you to consider this stateroom right here.

  • The team members come out of the stateroom to go to bed.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • I asked her to wait in your stateroom.

  • The captain called Wayne into his tiny stateroom, where he was working at his tiny desk.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Rita is sleeping off the aftereffects in the stateroom.

  • Stumbling to my stateroom, I fell into my bunk, closing my eyes before my head hit the pillow.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Lisbeth and I spent an inordinate amount of time in our stateroom, prompting humorous remarks from our shipmates.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • The family spent their vacation in a cozy stateroom with a beautiful view of the ocean.

Synonyms

cabin
vsstateroom
108 1.3

A small room for people on a plane or ship

is a private compartment for passengers with sleeping and washing facilities
drawing room
vsstateroom
  • Archaic
1 8.1

A private compartment on a sleeper train with beds and a toilet

is a private compartment on ships or trains with sleeping and washing facilities
roomette
vsstateroom
  • US
1 8.4

A small private space on a train with a bed for one person

is a private compartment with sleeping and washing facilities rather than just one person

How Comfortable

suite
288 3.5
stateroom
16 5.8
cabin
108 1.3
berth
9 5.5

Surface Forms

stateroom singular
staterooms plural

Morphology

stateroom = state + room (opaque) = state + room

The term 'stateroom' does not transparently convey its meaning of a private cabin on a ship or train from its components 'state' and 'room'.

Etymology

The word stateroom comes from the older words state 'official, grand' and room 'space', and it once meant a special room for important people in a palace, which ships later used for a private, comfortable cabin. So today a stateroom is a private sleeping cabin on a ship or train.