Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A private cabin or compartment with sleeping accommodations on a ship or train.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A room or an apartment of state in a palace or great house.
- n. In the United States navy, an officer's sleeping-apartment (called cabin in the British navy).
- n. A small private sleeping-apartment, generally with accommodation for two persons, on a passenger-steamer. Compare cabin, 3.
- n. A similar apartment in a sleeping-car.
Wiktionary
- n. An apartment in a palace or great house for use on ceremonial occasions
- n. A superior cabin for a ship's officer or captain
- n. US A private cabin in a ship or train
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A magnificent room in a palace or great house.
- n. A small apartment for lodging or sleeping in the cabin, or on the deck, of a vessel; also, a somewhat similar apartment in a railway sleeping car.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a guest cabin
Examples
“Four drinks later, all I was sure of was that my stateroom was a long way away.”
“Bound for the cubicle known as her stateroom, this time she encountered Saxtorph.”
“The Commander then descends to Ship's Services and the Admiral's stateroom, which is never occupied.”
“In the stateroom was a sight to arouse a sleepy boy and to delight a hungry one.”
“Being an inexperienced traveller she took a good many trunks and was pretty unpopular with the steward before he could make her understand that one trunk to the stateroom was the rule.”
“For one thing, our stateroom was a nice lively one, alongside of the paddle box and just under the fog whistle; and for another, the supper that Jonadab had brought, bein 'mainly doughnuts and cheese, wa'n't the best cargo to take to bed with you.”
“I can, but I didn't," continued Uncle Larry, "because my stateroom was the most for'ard in the boat, and the donkey-engine that let down the anchor was right over my head.”
“On the day appointed the Morris automobile called for us and took us to the train, and when the children found that they were to travel in a private pullman and that the stateroom was to be their own little house they were transported with pride.”
“While thinking thus I had succeeded in finding and lighting a small lamp, hung in gimbals from the fore bulkhead, and by its illumination I saw that the stateroom was a nice, clean, cosy little apartment, such as”
“As long as my so-called stateroom has the bare minimum - a bed, a desk, and a bathroom - I'm happy.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘stateroom’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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extra room
An add-on to Trivet's list elbow room and Lampbane's list 2BDRM W/VU that tries not to duplicate Trivet's and Lampbane's existing rooms. Virtual, allegorical and proverbial rooms accepted.
scullery, suite, porch, screened porch, breakfast room, atheneum, attic, hall, dressing room, passageway, corridor, fusuma and 126 more...
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Airborn
Words and phrases from Kenneth Oppel's book, Airborn.
running lights, starboard, bow, gondola, bullhorn, rudder man, gas cell, keel, catwalk, stern, cargo bay, machinist and 152 more...
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