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 →

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 →
• 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 →
• 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 →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.