What's the difference between bedchamber and bedroom?
Bedchamber
Definition:
(n.) A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wonderingly, you wander upstairs and into the sanctum of his bedchamber.
(2) In between, the number of people who could afford a bedchamber or a house of their own had slowly increased.
(3) It will be the digital version of the first great retreat into privacy, when families abandoned the medieval hall for the discreet bedchamber.
(4) If Edward I's pendulous swags – the replica drapery that forms part of the lavishly recreated Plantagenet bedchamber currently on display in the Tower Of London – were any more pendulous, their combined weight would probably bring down the ceiling, Beefeaters and all.
(5) Tales From The Royal Bedchamber ( Monday, 9pm, BBC4 ) takes such conjecture in its stride.
(6) It certainly played into the hands of the SNP last week, as Salmond smiled the smile of a black widow spider whose prey has just entered her bedchamber.
Bedroom
Definition:
(n.) A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.
(n.) Room in a bed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wright said he had recently shown a family moving from London around a four-bedroom house with a paddock, on sale for £375,000.
(2) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
(3) With Air Sentinels in the bedroom and living room for airborne collections, and a Sample Vac for collections from living room carpet and bedroom mattress, immunochemical quantifications of each were made with various radiometric assays with polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
(4) The mosquitoes coming to bite in bedrooms were monitored with light traps set beside untreated bednets.
(5) A property may be considered overcrowded if two children above 10 of the opposite sex have to share the same bedroom.
(6) In a barely-noticed submission to the government's Environmental Audit Committee, the London borough of Hounslow, the airport's near neighbours, said the airport was: breaching the World Health Organisation's guidelines for the levels for noise in people's bedrooms; breaching the EU guidelines for levels of nitrogen dioxide; and breaching British standards on the noise experienced by children in classrooms.
(7) In a wardrobe of the back bedroom they discovered a 9mm Glock pistol and in a plastic container under the bed there were more than 300 rounds of ammunition.
(8) Bargain of the week Charming but teeny-tiny one-bedroom period cottage, £55,000, with williamsonandhenry.com .
(9) He gave the example of a one-bedroom flat in Camberwell, south London, which was on the market at £360,000.
(10) That included "a higher minimum wage; stopping the abuse of zero-hours contracts; skills and careers for all our young people; banks working for businesses again; energy bills frozen; 200,000 homes built a year by 2020; power devolved; the bedroom tax abolished; and our National Health Service restored".
(11) The bedrooms have sea views over the Sound of Sleat, which you can cross during the summer on the original Skye ferry, which carries just a few cars at a time across the Kylerhea narrows.
(12) There are currently 800,000 more one-person households in New York than there are studio and one-bedroom apartments.
(13) The following levels were obtained: (1) For the patient to be discharged from the hospital, the maximum residual radioactivity should be less than 0.51 GBq if the distance from the patient in bedroom is 50 cm or more and the ages of her children are all over one year.
(14) Some social landlords are refusing to rent properties to tenants who would be faced with the bedroom tax if they were to take up a larger home, even when tenants provide assurances they can afford the shortfall.
(15) I lived on Southwark Bridge Road before every patch of it was developed into posh apartments – a small, one-bedroom flat will now set you back £500,000.
(16) LCP said one- and two-bedroom flats in the centre of the city were popular with corporate renters and international students, and that demand was fuelling rental growth.
(17) His story - which he was led through on Monday by his lawyer - is that he was outside his house cleaning Sadie, his dog, when the girls came down the road; that he took Holly and Jessica into his house because Holly had a nosebleed; took them upstairs into the bathroom where Holly sat on the edge of the full bath and he gave her tissues to staunch it; took Holly into his bedroom, to sit on the bed while Jessica used the toilet, took Holly back into the bathroom where she could finish cleaning up her nosebleed; accidentally slipped beside Holly and the full bath, and heard a splash; froze in panic; placed his hand over Jessica's mouth because she was screaming, 'You pushed her'.
(18) The dark, luxury air in the silent bedrooms of empty riverside apartments, their identical curving blocks clustered in threes and fours, grim and silent as gill slits, will be theirs.
(19) Steps wind down a rugged rock face to a bedroom, while light floods in from round skylights in the domed ceiling above.
(20) Kerstine Appunn and her boyfriend took three and a half months to land a spacious two-bedroomed flat in Prenzlauer Berg, one of Berlin’s pricier inner-city districts, where organic cafes populate the pretty, tree-lined streets.