variants
or less commonly bed-sit
plural bedsits also bed-sits
British
: a one-room apartment serving as both bedroom and living room
At times he would work on benches in train stations, or in Kew Gardens, just to escape the solitude of his bedsit.—
Andrew Brown
Andrew Browncalled also bedsitter, bed-sitting room
Examples of bedsit in a Sentence
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This show began with two childhood friends in a Barnsbury bedsit trying to make each other laugh and cry.
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Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
5 May 2026
Colwin was known in life as in writing for her cheer and bonhomie, as well as her ability to create a dinner party in the smallest bedsit.
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Bethanne Patrick,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2023
Marlene was remembering those evenings when Charlotte had gone round to conspire with the doctor in his bedsit, then come home and let herself into the flat so late, with such a guilty, heated, angry, happy face.
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Tessa Hadley,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2022
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Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
5 May 2026
Colwin was known in life as in writing for her cheer and bonhomie, as well as her ability to create a dinner party in the smallest bedsit.
—
Bethanne Patrick,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2023
Marlene was remembering those evenings when Charlotte had gone round to conspire with the doctor in his bedsit, then come home and let herself into the flat so late, with such a guilty, heated, angry, happy face.
—
Tessa Hadley,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2022
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“Bedsit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bedsit. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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