television room
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1.3
- noun
- /ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən ruːm/
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sala de televisión
- The cozy television room had a large sofa and a big screen for a perfect movie night.
Examples
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After dinner, we all gathered in the television room to watch our favorite movie together.
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He flipped through channels in the television room, one after the other, so the voices, music, and yelps of white noise melted together in a collage, an abstract code he could almost recognize.
Fiction book (1992) -
- I'm on my way to the television room.
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I was allowed back into the television room but was prevented from returning to the stairs.
Blog text (27) -
The truth is, she thinks Travis likes to be away from her, likes to eat his dinner in the crew's television room with the other men, and then go back to working on the drill pipe.
Fiction book (1998) -
He was carrying one of Sylvie's headscarves when he came back; she had left it in the television room.
Fiction book (1990) -
She would introduce him to other inmates at lunch or in the television room and lament, in the privacy of her bedroom, that they were not lively enough.
Fiction book (1997) -
When they got home, after winding through several unfamiliar roads to make certain they were going home alone, they found Al and Sylvie in the television room playing gin.
Fiction book (1990) -
The idea appealed to me, and after dinner we settled into the television room, where, against the backdrop of a Sunday-night movie, we thumbed through a stack of catalogs.
Fiction book (1996) -
The right side is the television room: light oak paneling, beige thick pile carpeting, dropped acoustical tile ceiling.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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1.0
A room in a house for watching TV
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase denotes exactly what its parts indicate: 'television' (the appliance) + 'room' (an indoor area) yields a room associated with watching television. This straightforward noun–noun composition follows common compositional patterns (e.g. 'dining room', 'bedroom') and is cross‑linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Television room comes from the simple idea of a room built around the television. Imagine people sitting with chairs all facing one special room, so the name now means a room set aside 'for watching television'.