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bedsit
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Word definitions for bedsit in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bedsit \bed"sit\ n. a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing). Syn: bedsitting room, bedsitter.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A bedsit , bedsitter , or bed-sitting room is a form of rented accommodation common in some parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland which consists of a single room per occupant with all occupants typically sharing a bathroom. Bedsits are included in a legal ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) [syn: bedsitting room , bedsitter ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Polly thought she lived in a bedsit and that she was being ripped off. ▪ The move comes in the wake of the recent Echo Inquiry which exposed the potential danger in flats and bedsits. ▪ True enough, Morrissey disregarded his ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context British Ireland English) 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 may be shared.
Usage examples of bedsit.
This pleased rupert but then he had found out she was renting a small bedsit in Vauxhall, rammed to the ceiling with pottery turtles, leatherette footstools and flowery, applique table mats, where she would sneak off as if visiting a lover and would sit for hours, rocking backwards and forwards stroking a ceramic clown amidst a mountain of knick-knacks.
He might have been more shocked if he had not seen similar bedsits when he first moved to London.
All around the world were people hidden in flats and bedsits, eking out their lives, who had once been warriors.
Years of living in bedsits have taught him that ironing-boards and the other impedimenta of housework are the product of little minds intent in filling the days of more creative souls with pointless rituals.
Polly thought she lived in a bedsit and that she was being ripped off.
Yes, how much better things had been, in the old days, when Gwyn was poor, his bedsit cramped, his girlfriend rough, his career quite prospectless.
As a parting gesture, Richard conjured up a genuine memory from his first year at Oxford: himself, crashing in at two in the morning, after some debauch in some bedsit at the secretarial school, to find Gwyn, in his earphone sideburns, still bent over his books, inching down that long road toward his bad Second.
Sometimes, when he stumbled into her bedsit in the small hours, Analiese was not alone.
She smiled in the darkness, thinking that there was no good reason why Tariq should understand what a bedsit was.
I did have a dingy little bedsit in Holloway paid for by Social Security, but there was a falling out over the rent.
This is bedsit country, offering a myriad of lives to explore, so long as people do not draw their curtains.
When she returned to her bedsitting room, she found her brother Mark waiting there.
Maybe he would be soon, if Scully Aitchison MSP got his way, but for now Joey had a bedsit and a trickle of state cash.