Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bedroom.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apartment or chamber intended or appropriated for a bed, or for sleep and repose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in.
- noun [Eng.] eight officers of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each.
- noun [Eng.] eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar official position in the royal household, during the reign of a queen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A
bedroom .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a room used primarily for sleeping
Etymologies
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Examples
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My bedchamber is another huge shadowy place, with a dressing-room and bath as large as the ordinary drawing-room at home, furnished with old mahogany and silver fittings brought from Germany two generations ago.
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This approach to coupling within the bedchamber was the ultimate sacrament within the Order, and the two of them had been through intensive instruction in sacred union.
The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010
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Beyond the bedchamber was a bathchamber with a tub carved out of an oblong marble block, and with two spigots, both of shimmering bronze.
Darkness Modesitt, L. E. 2003
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Charles and a gentleman of the bedchamber were the only two who came back sober.
Bruges and West Flanders Am��d��e Forestier 1887
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His bedchamber was a small apartment at the back of the parlour, and here he packed his bag while conversing with his employer.
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Then the fact that the deceased was in the habit of keeping money in his bedchamber was a fact well known in the village, and not likely to be known outside of it, though of course it might have been.
The Stillwater Tragedy Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871
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She inhabited the suite of rooms in which the murder had been committed; her bedchamber was the same which had belonged to the late marquise; her bed was the same; the window by which she had fled was before her eyes; and everything, down to the smallest article of furniture, recalled to her the details of that savage tragedy.
Celebrated Crimes (Complete) Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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Where I found Commissioner Willoughby had sent for all his things away out of my bedchamber, which is a little disappointment, but it is better than pay too dear for them.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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Where I found Commissioner Willoughby had sent for all his things away out of my bedchamber, which is a little disappointment, but it is better than pay too dear for them.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 06: June/July 1660 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Where I found Commissioner Willoughby had sent for all his things away out of my bedchamber, which is a little disappointment, but it is better than pay too dear for them.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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