sickroom

noun

sick·room | \ ˈsik-ˌrüm

, -ˌru̇m\

Definition of sickroom

: a room in which a person is confined by sickness

We brought father home from the hospital and converted a spare room into a sickroom.

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Dying people in the bygone world were said to have commonly seen their dead relations or others known to them—not in the hallucinatory trips of the near-death experience, but in the sickroom with them. — John Crowley, Harper's magazine, "Works of Mercy," 10 Apr. 2019 As shot by Philippe Le Sourd, the film looks like an unholy collaboration between John Singer Sargent and Edvard Munch, a faded mansion on its way to becoming a sickroom. — Charles Taylor, Newsweek, "Review 'The Beguiled': In Sofia Coppola's Movie, Female Sexuality Collides With Notions of Gentility," 22 June 2017

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More Definitions for sickroom

sickroom

noun

: a room in which a sick person stays

sickroom

noun

sick·room | \ ˈsik-ˌrüm, -ˌru̇m

: a room in which a person is confined by sickness