noun
- a common room in an institution (such as a hospital, prison, or military barracks) where people can relax during the day
Usage: institutional
Examples
- The patients gathered in the dayroom to watch television.
- Inmates are allowed to use the dayroom during specified hours.
- The hospital’s dayroom has comfortable chairs and magazines.
- Soldiers relaxed in the barracks dayroom after training.
- The nursing home’s dayroom was decorated for the holidays.
- She found her grandfather playing cards in the dayroom.