SICKROOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sickroom mean? 

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

1. a room to which a sick person is confined

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SICKROOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A room to which a sick person is confined

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

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

 Context examples 

A very few lines from Edmund shewed her the patient and the sickroom in a juster and stronger light than all Lady Bertram's sheets of paper could do.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Meg had a quiet rapture, and then brooded over the letter, while Jo set the sickroom in order, and Hannah "knocked up a couple of pies in case of company unexpected".

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)