dying room
dying room · dying rooms
A room in a Chinese orphanage where unwanted children are left to die from neglectA room in a Chinese orphanage where unwanted children are left to die from neglect.
Meaning
1 sensesA room in a Chinese orphanage where unwanted children are left to die from neglect.
Origin
Probably introduced or popularized by the 1995 television documentary The Dying Rooms.Probably introduced or popularized by the 1995 television documentary The Dying Rooms.
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Forms
plural: dying rooms| Singular | dying room |
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedliving roomA1
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.