BACK ROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does back room mean? 

• BACK ROOM (noun)
  The noun BACK ROOM has 1 sense:

1. a room located in the rear of an establishment; usually accessible only to privileged groups

  Familiarity information: BACK ROOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACK ROOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A room located in the rear of an establishment; usually accessible only to privileged groups

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("back room" is a kind of...):

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

 Context examples 

Mary, a matronly young blonde, was washing dishes in the little back room that served for kitchen and dining room.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then he entered the back room and took up a measure of bran, which he mixed with a great many pins and needles.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Forbes flung open the door, and we both ran into the back room or kitchen, but the woman had got there before us.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He darted into the hall, and a few moments later his bullying voice sounded from the back room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The girls had gone home, when my name burst into bloom on Traddles's door; and the sharp boy looked, all day, as if he had never heard of Sophy, shut up in a back room, glancing down from her work into a sooty little strip of garden with a pump in it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I lingered in the long passage to which this led, separating the front and back rooms of the third storey: narrow, low, and dim, with only one little window at the far end, and looking, with its two rows of small black doors all shut, like a corridor in some Bluebeard's castle.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You take him into the back room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)