stateroom

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a private sleeping cabin on a passenger ship or train

   Their stateroom had two bunks and a small window overlooking the sea.

2. 2
   noun

   a large formal room in a palace or important residence

   The reception moved from the gallery into the palace stateroom.

A compound of state + room. It first referred to a grand room reserved for ceremony or people of high rank, then broadened in travel to a superior private cabin on a ship or train.

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