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mudroom

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A room used as a barrier between indoors and outdoors.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Canada, US

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From mud + room.

Across languages

Translations

9 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: пруст (prust) — room between outdoors and indoors
  • Bulgarian: антре (antre) — room between outdoors and indoors
  • Dutch: bijkeuken — room between outdoors and indoors
  • Finnish: kuraeteinen — room between outdoors and indoors
  • German: Windfang — room between outdoors and indoors
  • German: Vorraum — room between outdoors and indoors
  • Polish: wiatrołap — room between outdoors and indoors
  • Russian: прихо́жая (prixóžaja) — room between outdoors and indoors
  • Russian: се́ни (séni) — room between outdoors and indoors