"retiring room" meaning in English

See retiring room in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: retiring rooms [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} retiring room (plural retiring rooms)
  1. A room set aside for seclusion, rest or quiet. Categories (topical): Rest, Rooms
    Sense id: en-retiring_room-en-noun-Y5UJuxWy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for retiring room meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "retiring rooms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "retiring room (plural retiring rooms)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rest",
          "orig": "en:Rest",
          "parents": [
            "Body",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rooms",
          "orig": "en:Rooms",
          "parents": [
            "Buildings and structures",
            "Architecture",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Art",
            "Sciences",
            "Culture",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964 July, Mary Allen, “A Woman's View of the New Coaches”, in Modern Railways, page 9",
          "text": "But why cannot women—and mothers especially—have their own retiring room of the kind I remember some years ago finding such a pleasant surprise on a Kings Cross -Edinburgh train?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 December 14, Robin Leleux, “A royal occasion as heritage projects honoured: Wolferton”, in RAIL, number 972, page 61",
          "text": "Wolferton was an important station on the Kings Lynn-Hunstanton line, which closed in 1969. As the station was convenient for the Sandringham estate, it was regularly patronised by royalty, and royal retiring rooms were provided.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A room set aside for seclusion, rest or quiet."
      ],
      "id": "en-retiring_room-en-noun-Y5UJuxWy",
      "links": [
        [
          "seclusion",
          "seclusion"
        ],
        [
          "rest",
          "rest"
        ],
        [
          "quiet",
          "quiet"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "retiring room"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "retiring rooms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "retiring room (plural retiring rooms)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Rest",
        "en:Rooms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1964 July, Mary Allen, “A Woman's View of the New Coaches”, in Modern Railways, page 9",
          "text": "But why cannot women—and mothers especially—have their own retiring room of the kind I remember some years ago finding such a pleasant surprise on a Kings Cross -Edinburgh train?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 December 14, Robin Leleux, “A royal occasion as heritage projects honoured: Wolferton”, in RAIL, number 972, page 61",
          "text": "Wolferton was an important station on the Kings Lynn-Hunstanton line, which closed in 1969. As the station was convenient for the Sandringham estate, it was regularly patronised by royalty, and royal retiring rooms were provided.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A room set aside for seclusion, rest or quiet."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "seclusion",
          "seclusion"
        ],
        [
          "rest",
          "rest"
        ],
        [
          "quiet",
          "quiet"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "retiring room"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.