stateroom
pronunciation
How to pronounce stateroom in British English:
UK [ˈsteɪtru:m]
How to pronounce stateroom in American English:
US [ˈstetˌrum, -ˌrʊm]
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- Noun:
- a guest cabin
Word Origin
- stateroom (n.)
- also state-room, 1703, room reserved for ceremonial occasions; earlier (1650s) "a captain's cabin;" from room (n.) + state (n.1) in a sense also preserved in stately.
Example
- 1. Are you saying she 'll continue to have a stateroom ?
- 2. May I change to a stateroom with an ocean view ?
- 3. He 's got a stateroom listed as a cargo hold on the manifest .
- 4. Shut the stateroom door and the porthole , please .
- 5. " You had better slip down into my stateroom now , " I said , moving off stealthily .