bedsitter

noun

bed·​sit·​ter ˈbed-ˌsi-tər 

variants or less commonly bed-sitter

plural bedsitters also bed-sitters

British

: a one-room apartment serving as both bedroom and sitting room : bedsit

Ebury Street with its bedsitters, flatlets, small businesses, and round the corner a post-office, could not afford airs.

—Patrick White

Examples of bedsitter in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Samson and Gregor moved their mother, the sofa, and whatever else out of Lotte’s ample apartment could be made to fit, into the bedsitter in the Hudson Valley. —Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017

Word History

Etymology

bed-sitting room + -er (as in fresher freshman, rugger rugby)

First Known Use

1899, in the meaning defined above