BEDCHAMBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bedchamber mean? 

• BEDCHAMBER (noun)
  The noun BEDCHAMBER has 1 sense:

1. a room used primarily for sleeping

  Familiarity information: BEDCHAMBER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEDCHAMBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A room used primarily for sleeping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bedchamber; bedroom; chamber; sleeping accommodation; sleeping room

Hypernyms ("bedchamber" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "bedchamber"):

bed (a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bedchamber"):

boudoir (a lady's bedroom or private sitting room)

child's room (a bedroom for a child)

dorm room; dormitory; dormitory room (a large sleeping room containing several beds)

guestroom (a bedroom that is kept for the use of guests)

hotel room (a bedroom (usually with bath) in a hotel)

master bedroom (the principal bedroom in a house; usually occupied by the head of the household)

motel room (a sleeping room in a motel)

Holonyms ("bedchamber" is a part of...):

abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home (housing that someone is living in)

 Context examples 

“Shall I convey it to your bedchamber, Sir Charles?” he asked.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The queen commanded her own cabinet-maker to contrive a box, that might serve me for a bedchamber, after the model that Glumdalclitch and I should agree upon.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The front room served as bedchamber and living room.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In your bedchamber I know you cannot have a fire.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A waiter showed me into the coffee-room; and a chambermaid introduced me to my small bedchamber, which smelt like a hackney-coach, and was shut up like a family vault.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And there was a parlour, and a bedchamber, and a kitchen; and behind the cottage there was a little garden, planted with all sorts of flowers and fruits; and there was a courtyard behind, full of ducks and chickens.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I rather think you are mistaken, for when I was talking to her yesterday of getting a new grate for the spare bedchamber, she observed that there was no immediate hurry for it, as it was not likely that the room would be wanted for some time.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

About two or three days before I was set at liberty, as I was entertaining the court with this kind of feat, there arrived an express to inform his majesty, that some of his subjects, riding near the place where I was first taken up, had seen a great black substance lying on the around, very oddly shaped, extending its edges round, as wide as his majesty’s bedchamber, and rising up in the middle as high as a man; that it was no living creature, as they at first apprehended, for it lay on the grass without motion; and some of them had walked round it several times; that, by mounting upon each other’s shoulders, they had got to the top, which was flat and even, and, stamping upon it, they found that it was hollow within; that they humbly conceived it might be something belonging to the man-mountain; and if his majesty pleased, they would undertake to bring it with only five horses.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)