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state-room

state-room is the alternative form of stateroom.

Meaning of stateroom

Noun

stateroom (plural staterooms)

  1. An apartment in a palace or great house for use on ceremonial occasions.
  2. A superior cabin for a ship's officer or captain.
    • It was not a nice cabin compared with the stateroom I had left.1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter III, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18
  3. (US) A private cabin in a ship or train.
    • The King's coach includes His Majesty's suite comprising a study and stateroom with adjoining bathroom having inter-leading door. […] In the Queen's coach are the Queen's stateroom and bathroom, the Royal Family lounge, lady-in-waiting's compartment and bathroom, and dresser's room. […] Princess...1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, pages 36, 47

Forms of state-room

pluralstate-rooms

Questions about state-room

What is state-room the alternative form of?
State-room is the alternative form of stateroom.

Words near state-room in the dictionary

  1. state-level municipality
  2. state-of-the-art
  3. state-owned
  4. state-owned enterprise
  5. state-owned enterprises
  6. state-room
  7. state-run
  8. stateable
  9. stateball
  10. stateballs
  11. statechart

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Adapted from Wiktionary: state-room (page history and authors); stateroom (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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