Bedbox
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A box-bed.
"In the NORTH ROOM, two bedboxes are built into one wall and hung with the same coarse striped silk as the fireplace."
- 2 A nest box.
"She was a good deal excited, and ran frantically into and out of her little bedbox, which had a hole at each end. Soon this tiny gust of rage passed over. She now, though running about her cage, indulging in little gambols, indicating grace and agility, struck off into a truly beautiful strain of song."
- 3 A very small bedroom that does not hold much more than a bed. slang
"The rooms which in the introduction have been described as "bedboxes" are actually only about twice as large as the bed."
Example
More examples"In the NORTH ROOM, two bedboxes are built into one wall and hung with the same coarse striped silk as the fireplace."
Etymology
From bed + box.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.