mudroom

See also: mud room

English

Alternative forms

• mud room

Etymology

mud +‎ room

Noun

mudroom (plural mudrooms)

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

   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.

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.