mudroom

See also: mud room

English

Alternative forms

• mud room

Etymology

From mud +‎ room.

Noun

mudroom (plural mudrooms)

1. (Canada, US) A room used as a barrier between indoors and outdoors.

   Coordinate terms: airlock, boot room, half bath, vestibule, foyer

   We made sure to hang our wet clothes on the hook in the mudroom when we came in from the snow.

   • 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.2, at p.28:

     In the mud room, I grabbed my wool-lined jacket and headed back out.

Translations

Room between outdoors and indoors

• Finnish: kuraeteinen
• German: Windfang (de) m
• Polish: wiatrołap (pl) m
• Russian: прихо́жая (ru) f (prixóžaja), се́ни (ru) m pl (séni)

Further reading

• “mudroom”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.