Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing).
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- noun UK A form of
rented accommodation consisting of a singleroom for use as bothsitting room andbedroom ; there may also be a smallkitchen area andwashing andtoilet facilities, but these may be shared.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing)
Etymologies
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Examples
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It’s what the estate agent I rented it from euphemistically called a studio and what Mum and Dad unappealingly call a bedsit.
Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010
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It’s what the estate agent I rented it from euphemistically called a studio and what Mum and Dad unappealingly call a bedsit.
Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010
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The exhibition, which opens in February, and brings together works by Mondrian and Nicholson originally shown in the same galleries, examines a little-known period of Mondrian's life in the late 1930s when he lived for two years in a bedsit in Hampstead, north London, and socialised with Nicholson, his first and second wives Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, and other avant-garde British artists.
Mondrian's little known London period highlighted by exhibition of rare works 2011
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It is also used as a slang/familiar word for a bedroom that looks more like a junk room where everything is on top of each other - also used for a miserable bedsit, a small, uncomfortable & untidy house.
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I always think that if things ever go horribly wrong and I have to move into a bedsit, at least I'll still have a real piano that will fit.
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I dossed down in a bedsit in adjoining Marloes Road – catching a Greenline bus each morning for shifts on the Slough Observer – and Willie and I occasionally laughed and drank in the Princess of Teck local; that summer of 1962 we watched the Pakistanis at Lord's and had a memorable day together at the Wimbledon tennis.
Fifty years of Private Eye's eccentric eye view of sport | Frank Keating 2011
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In the brief first act Leigh shows Jean, a Brummie girl who lives alone in a Kilburn bedsit, having joyless sex with a married man played by Daniel Coonan whose wife suddenly bursts in upon them.
Ecstasy - review 2011
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In fact, not knowing the place in question was Jacques 'flat, I thought poor Alexix was actually living not too far from your place, in a very messy room/bedsit.
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His mobile number returned "unobtainable", his landline number had been reallocated and he had left his bedsit.
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In Hampstead he moved into a bedsit on the same road as the Nicholsons, which he promptly painted white, and worked in a studio next door to Nicholson's.
Mondrian's little known London period highlighted by exhibition of rare works 2011
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