: a room in which a person is confined by sickness
Examples of sickroom in a Sentence
We brought father home from the hospital and converted a spare room into a sickroom.
Recent Examples on the Web
On the night of September 8, 1976, as Mao hovered near death, senior members of the Politburo gathered in a sickroom in the leadership compound in Beijing to pay their final respects.
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Tyler Jost,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Aug. 2025
To prevent infected air from seeping out of the sickroom, Fox suggests wedging towels in the gap under the bedroom door.
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Liz Szabo,
NBC News,
17 May 2022
In 1855, Martineau once again confined herself to a sickroom due to a resurgence of her symptoms.
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Lorraine Boissoneault,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Nov. 2021
When Praskovya bursts into her husband’s sickroom, the music shoots a jolt of energy — and life — into the moment.
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Matthew J. Palm,
orlandosentinel.com,
20 Feb. 2021
For Richard Wright and Masaoka Shiki, lying on their sickroom beds, writing haiku was an art of short spurts of insight followed by exhaustion.
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Christopher Benfey,
The New York Review of Books,
25 June 2020
Even the devoted family dog, Heidi, was banished from the sickroom.
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Bettina Boxall,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2020
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Tyler Jost,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Aug. 2025
To prevent infected air from seeping out of the sickroom, Fox suggests wedging towels in the gap under the bedroom door.
—
Liz Szabo,
NBC News,
17 May 2022
In 1855, Martineau once again confined herself to a sickroom due to a resurgence of her symptoms.
—
Lorraine Boissoneault,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Nov. 2021
When Praskovya bursts into her husband’s sickroom, the music shoots a jolt of energy — and life — into the moment.
—
Matthew J. Palm,
orlandosentinel.com,
20 Feb. 2021
For Richard Wright and Masaoka Shiki, lying on their sickroom beds, writing haiku was an art of short spurts of insight followed by exhaustion.
—
Christopher Benfey,
The New York Review of Books,
25 June 2020
Even the devoted family dog, Heidi, was banished from the sickroom.
—
Bettina Boxall,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2020
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“Sickroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sickroom. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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sickroom
noun
sick·room
ˈsik-ˌrüm 
-ˌru̇m
: a room in which a sick person stays
Medical Definition
sickroom
noun
sick·room
ˈsik-ˌrüm, -ˌru̇m
: a room in which a person is confined by sickness
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