day room

a room at an institution, as on a military base, providing facilities for leisure activities.

(in a hospital) a recreation room for ambulatory patients.

Origin of day room

First recorded in 1815–25

Whilst the turnkey was watching his charge, a sort of council was being held in the day-room.

The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 |Eugne Sue
At Gloucester there was but one court for all prisoners, and, while fever was decimating them, only one day-room.

Elizabeth Fry |Mrs. E. R. Pitman
In due course this story found its way to the Buller's day-room, where was great rejoicing.

The Loom of Youth |Alec Waugh
Sheen was in the fourth dormitory, where the majority of the day-room slept.

The White Feather |P. G. Wodehouse

The problem, of course, is to discover which room they adopted as the day-room.

The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll |Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

day room

a communal living room in a residential institution such as a hospital