changing room
See also: changing-room
English
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A changing room, dressing room, locker room
A changing room, fitting room
Alternative forms
editNoun
editchanging room (plural changing rooms)
- A room, especially in a gym, sports center, school, swimming pool, etc, designed for people to change their clothes.
- Synonyms: dressing room, (US, CA) locker room
- We changed into our swimsuits in the changing room next to the pool.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 104:
- John Betjeman would later recall that the railway 'smelt of feet', and the carriages may have continued to smell of feet after they were taken out of service in the 1920s because some of them found use as changing rooms beside the playing fields of southern England.
- A room or enclosure, e.g. in a clothes shop, where people try on clothes they are interested in buying.
- Synonym: fitting room
Derived terms
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editTranslations
editroom in gym, sports center, etc.
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room in shop
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Further reading
edit- “changing room”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “changing room”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “changing room”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “changing room”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.