roomette

[roo-met, roo-]

room·ette

[roo-met, roo-]
noun
1.
a small private compartment in the sleeping car of a train, usually for one person, containing its own washroom facilities and a bed that folds against the wall when not in use.
2.
any small room, especially one used solely for study or sleeping.
3.
a private room connected to a box at a sports stadium or arena and used for entertaining guests.

Origin:
1935–40; room + -ette
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To roomette

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

Roomette is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Collins
World English Dictionary
roomette (ruːˈmɛt, rʊˈmɛt)
 
n
(US), (Canadian) a self-contained compartment in a railway sleeping car

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT