Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bedroom nation

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.32 in modern English

Syllables: bed-room -na-tion
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A micronation located solely in a bedroom (or, less strictly, any room).

Example Sentences

"At first he wanted to call it Seltsam ('silly', in German), but instead settled on The Kingdom of Talossa, "talossa" [author's italics] being Finnish for "inside the house," the perfect name for a bedroom nation."
"While there has never been a macronational bedroom nation, some exclaves have been barely larger."
"Not counting a secessionist bedroom-nation I had as a kid (briefly allied with Sander Dieleman’s Pacary), my first introduction to micronations as this sector understands them was in the spring of 2003."
"PS, we will not accept house,online, or bedroom nation you must have an actual territory that could one day become an actual recognized nation"

Etymology

From bedroom + nation, as a clipping of micronation.

Inflected Forms

bedroom nations (plural)

Questions

What does bedroom nation mean?: A micronation located solely in a bedroom (or, less strictly, any room).
Where does bedroom nation come from?: From bedroom + nation, as a clipping of micronation.

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