(British, Ireland) A form of rented accommodation consisting of a single room for use as both sitting room and bedroom; there may also be a small kitchen area and washing and toilet facilities, but th
(British, Ireland) A form of rented accommodation consisting of a single room for use as both sitting room and bedroom; there may also be a small kitchen area and washing and toilet facilities, but these amenities are more commonly outside the room and shared by several tenants.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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A very small bedroom or a closet directly adjoining a bedroom, historically common in older British, Scottish, and American homes where space was at a premium. 'Bed-closet' evokes the compact, ingenious use of limited square footage in older domestic architecture — the kind of arrangement where a curtained alcove or tiny side room serves as a sleeping space. The term appears in period novels and architectural histories as a marker of modest or working-class domestic life.
(slang) A very small bedroom that does not hold much more than a bed.
a small bedroom.
(AU) A bedsit.
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(especially, British) A room in a house where people (residents or guests) pass the time in leisure.