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dying room

dying room noun: a room in a Chinese orphanage where unwanted children are left to die from neglect.

Noun

dying room (plural dying rooms)

  1. A room in a Chinese orphanage where unwanted children are left to die from neglect.
    • The following day questions were raised in the House of Commons about China's one-child policy and its dying rooms.1996, United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women: Hearings..., page 241
    • There have been studies showing that orphanages in parts of China are nothing more than torture chambers at best. An article by Hansel (2002) describes one orphanage as a “dying room.” It was observed that the children are chained to a chair over a bucket […]2005, Andrea Barnes, The Handbook of Women, Psychology, and the Law, page 388

Forms of dying room

pluraldying rooms

Origin of dying room

Probably introduced or popularized by the 1995 television documentary The Dying Rooms.

Questions about dying room

What does dying room mean?
Dying room means a room in a Chinese orphanage where unwanted children are left to die from neglect.
What part of speech is dying room?
Dying room is a noun.
What is the plural of dying room?
The plural of dying room is dying rooms.

Words near dying room in the dictionary

  1. dying prematurely
  2. dying quail
  3. dying quails
  4. dying roaring
  5. dying roaring for a priest
  6. dying room
  7. dying rooms
  8. dying seconds
  9. dying the way one lived
  10. dyingly
  11. dyingness

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