sickroom

[ sik-room, -room ]

noun

1. a room in which a sick person is confined.

sickroom

/ -ˌrʊm; ˈsɪkˌruːm /

noun

1. a room to which a person who is ill is confined
2. a room set aside, as in a school, for people who are taken ill

Word History and Origins

Origin of sickroom¹

First recorded in 1740–50; sick ¹ + room

Example Sentences

"I'm going out and let you sleep," Braceway insisted, displaying the average man's feeling of absolute helplessness in a sickroom.

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He ignores the individuality of the room; the ball-room and the sickroom are lighted alike.

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It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sickroom.

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It is not the stillness of a summer night in the country, nor of a church, nor of a sickroom: it is the silence of death!

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A spell seemed, indeed, to rest on all things, which had in it more than the watchful hush of the ordinary sickroom.

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Related Words

• dispensary