[
UK
/wˈɔːdɹuːm/
]
NOUN
- military quarters for dining and recreation for officers of a warship (except the captain)
How To Use wardroom In A Sentence
- At least until recently, the penalty for any officer on the P&O line caught wearing a made-up bow-tie was to buy champagne for the entire wardroom.
- When she arrived in sunny Gibraltar, Caroline was greeted by HMS York's Commanding Officer, Commander Paul Porter, before she sat down to a traditional lunch in the wardroom.
- While Robinson provides some historical framework to the ship's operations, the strength of the book is the insight it provides into the daily life of a destroyer wardroom during this extraordinary time.
- During the most recent deployment, a wardroom mess dinner was held on the flight deck, involving guests from all three services.
- They stuck to the best traditions and gathered together into naval societies, organizations and wardrooms.
- His views and attitudes were formed in naval wardrooms and are more usually representative of public opinion than the constipated gripings of his critics on the left.
- Some years later Navy regulations were changed to permit wardroom and steerage officers to voluntarily form their own wine mess.
- Then on Saturday, the curacoa came in — same commission, with all our old friends; and on Sunday, as already mentioned, Austin and I went down to service and had lunch afterwards in the wardroom. Vailima Letters
- The Pelican had five officers on board, and the wardroom was sufficient to serve as a conference area as well as a dining space.
- It was shortly after dinner time, so the wardroom had a dozen officers still lounging after their meals.