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# bedchamber

«bedchamber» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **bedroom** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

bedroom

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A bedroom, especially a grand one in a palace or large house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bedchamber/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Old-fashioned today; we say bedroom.

### examples

- Then the Three Bears thought it necessary that they should make farther search; so they went upstairs into their bedchamber. (English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bedchamber/#x1)
- One hall was more magnificent than the other; one might indeed well be abashed; and at last they came into the bedchamber. (Andersen's Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bedchamber/#x2)
- My sweetheart knows a little back stair that leads to the bedchamber, and she knows where she can get the key of it.” (Andersen's Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bedchamber/#x3)

### primary record

bedchamber

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 14 (Torah 0, tales 14, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bedchamber» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/bedchamber/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.