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Definition of Bedroom Community
(noun) A suburb from which large amounts of workers commute.
Example of Bedroom Community
- Alexandria, Virginia, outside of Washington D.C. in the United States.
Bedroom Community Pronunciation
Syllabification: bed·room com·mu·ni·ty
Audio Pronunciation
Phonetic Spelling
- American English – /bEd-room kuh-myOO-nuh-tee/
- British English – /bE-droom kuh-myOO-ni-tee/
International Phonetic Alphabet
- American English – /ˈbɛˌdrum kəmˈjunəti/
- British English – /ˈbɛdru(ː)m kəˈmjuːnɪti/
Usage Notes
- Plural: bedroom communities
- Also called:
- bedroom suburb
- bedroom town
- commuter town
- dormitory suburb
- dormitory town
- dormitory village
Additional Information
Related Terms
Works Consulted
Encyclopædia Britannica. (N.d.) Britannica Digital Learning. (https://britannicalearn.com/).
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Princeton University. 2010. WordNet. (https://wordnet.princeton.edu/).
Random House Webster’s College Dictionary. 1997. New York: Random House.
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Wikipedia contributors. (N.d.) Wiktionary, The Free Dictionary. Wikimedia Foundation. (http://en.wiktionary.org).
Cite the Definition of Bedroom Community
ASA – American Sociological Association (5th edition)
Bell, Kenton, ed. 2014. “bedroom community.” In Open Education Sociology Dictionary. Retrieved April 24, 2024 (https://sociologydictionary.org/bedroom-community/).
APA – American Psychological Association (6th edition)
bedroom community. (2014). In K. Bell (Ed.), Open education sociology dictionary. Retrieved from https://sociologydictionary.org/bedroom-community/
Chicago/Turabian: Author-Date – Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition)
Bell, Kenton, ed. 2014. “bedroom community.” In Open Education Sociology Dictionary. Accessed April 24, 2024. https://sociologydictionary.org/bedroom-community/.
MLA – Modern Language Association (7th edition)
“bedroom community.” Open Education Sociology Dictionary. Ed. Kenton Bell. 2014. Web. 24 Apr. 2024. <https://sociologydictionary.org/bedroom-community/>.