mud room

American  

Or mudroom

noun

1. a vestibule or other area in a house, in which wet and muddy clothes or footwear are removed.

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Etymology

Origin of mud room

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

That’s why houses have entryways or a mud room.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2026

The woman, who was awakened by a crashing sound and her dog growling, discovered a cinnamon-colored black bear weighing about 100 pounds in her mud room, officials said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2023

This floor also has a pantry, a laundry room, a powder room and a mud room.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2023

If you sense you are about to step into a sword-and-sandal epic with a mud room, you would not be altogether wrong.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2022

Tête Rouge’s sick chamber was a little mud room, where he and a companion attacked by the same disease were laid together, with nothing but a buffalo robe between them and the ground.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert