bedsit

noun

bed·​sit ˌbed-ˈsit 

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

called also bedsitter, bed-sitting room

Examples of bedsit in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Her take on her hit, performed from a stage set like a messy bedsit, complete with washing machine, was the night’s most compelling musical moment and confirmation of a bright new star in the dimming U.K. firmament. —Mark Sutherland, Variety, 2 Mar. 2025

Photo: Matt Crockett The New Yorker magazine cover pinned to the cozy bedsit wall of Andy and her beau Nate’s dear little homestead bears an image of the Manhattan skyline, showing a cluster of elegant highrises set against the midnight city sky. —Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2024

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

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

Street selling countercultural tchotchkes, but even the wealthy are exploited: paying to live the 1970s nightmare of a claustrophobic bedsit. —Max Holleran, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2022

Charlotte began going out in the evenings, with an anxious, important face, to visit his lonely bedsit and negotiate the next step with him. —Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined above