bed
27 ENTRIES FOUND:
- bed (noun)
- bed (verb)
- bed–and–breakfast (noun)
- bedding (noun)
- bedding (adjective)
- bed–wetting (noun)
- bed and board (noun)
- bed linens (noun)
- bed of roses (noun)
- bed rest (noun)
- air bed (noun)
- bunk bed (noun)
- camp bed (noun)
- feather bed (noun)
- flower bed (noun)
- Murphy bed (noun)
- oyster bed (noun)
- sofa bed (noun)
- tanning bed (noun)
- twin bed (noun)
- water bed (noun)
- die (verb)
- get (verb)
- lie (verb)
- marriage (noun)
- roll (verb)
- wrong (adjective)
plural
beds
plural
beds
Britannica Dictionary definition of BED
1
a
:
a piece of furniture that people sleep on
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The room contains only a bed and a dresser.
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There are two beds in the hotel room.
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a hospital bed
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a single bed [=a bed for one person]
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a double bed [=a bed for two people]
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He lay on the bed [=on top of the sheets, blankets, and bedspread] for a long time.
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Don't forget to make the bed. [=to neatly arrange the sheets, blankets, and bedspread on the bed so that the mattress is covered]
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He became ill and took to his bed. [=he went to lie in bed for a long time]
[noncount]
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She usually goes to bed [=lies down in her bed to sleep] around 11:00.
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It's time to get out of bed. [=get up]
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He lay/stayed in bed all morning.
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The kids like to hear a story before bed. [=before they go to sleep]
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Have you put the children to bed? [=have you prepared the children to go to sleep and put them in their beds?]
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Come on, children. It's time for bed. [=bedtime, time to sleep]
2
— used in phrases that describe having sexual relations
◊ Someone who is good in bed is a skillful lover. When two people are in bed, they are in the act of having sex.
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She caught her husband and his secretary in bed together. = She caught her husband in bed with his secretary.
◊ To go to bed with someone is to have sex with someone.
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She likes him as a friend, but she's not interested in going to bed with him.
◊ To get someone into bed is to get someone to have sex with you.
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He has fantasies about getting a fashion model into bed.
◊ Phrases like these are also used figuratively.
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a politician who is accused of being in bed with the oil industry [=of having an improperly close relationship with the oil industry]
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The Communists and the Fascists got into bed with each other [=joined forces] to keep the liberals out of power.
3
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:
a small area of ground specially prepared for plants
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see also bed of roses, flower bed, seedbed
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I'm planning on putting a bed of perennials in that corner of the yard.
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a bed of flowers
4
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a
:
a flat pile or layer of something
b
:
a flat pile or layer of food that is placed on a dish with other food on top of it
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grilled fish served on a bed of greens
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a bed of rice
6
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technical
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a layer of rock or some other material from inside the earth
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fossil beds
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a bed of shale
7
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:
the platform or box in the back of some kinds of trucks
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see also flatbed
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the bed of the truck
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We loaded the equipment and put a cover over the truck bed.
die in (your) bed
get up on the wrong side of the bed
(US) or chiefly British get out of bed on the wrong side
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to be in a bad mood throughout the day
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Be careful when you talk to the boss. He got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
make your bed and lie in it
◊ Expressions like you've made your bed, and now you must lie in it mean that you have done something that causes problems and now you must accept and deal with those problems.
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There's nothing we can do to help her. She's made her bed and has to lie in it.
marriage bed
:
a bed that married people share
— sometimes used figuratively to refer to marriage in general or to the sexual relations that married people have
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the sorrows of their marriage bed
2
bed
/ˈbɛd/
verb
beds;
bedded;
bedding
2
bed
/ˈbɛd/
verb
beds;
bedded;
bedding
Britannica Dictionary definition of BED
[+ object]
1
informal + old-fashioned
:
to have sex with (someone)
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He has fantasies about bedding a fashion model.
2
:
to place (food) on a pile or layer of something else
— usually used as (be) bedded
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a mixture of scallops and lobster bedded on rice
bed down
[phrasal verb]
1
:
to lie down somewhere for sleep
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There were so many people that some of us had to bed down in the living room.
2
bed (someone or something) down
or
bed down (someone or something)
:
to provide (a person or animal) with a place to sleep
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They bedded us down in the living room.
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When the animals had been fed and bedded down, we went inside to eat dinner.
