Meaning of bed in English

1. Pronunciation

   /bɛd/

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1. Verb

   bed

   Definitions

   1. furnish with a bed

   Examples

   • « The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals »
2. 2. place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
3. 3. put to bed

   Examples

   • « The children were bedded at ten o'clock »
4. 4. have sexual intercourse with

   Examples

   • « This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm »
   • « Adam knew Eve »
   • « Were you ever intimate with this man? »
5. 5. go to bed in order to sleep

   Examples

   • « I usually turn in at midnight »
   • « He turns out at the crack of dawn »

   Antonyms

   • get up
   • turn out
   • arise
   • uprise
   • rise
   • get up
   • turn out
   • arise
   • uprise
   • rise

6. Noun

   bed

   Etymology

   Old English bed, bedd (noun), beddian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bed and German Bett

   Definitions

   1. a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep

   Examples

   • « he sat on the edge of the bed »
   • « the room had only a bed and chair »
7. 2. a plot of ground in which plants are growing

   Examples

   • « the gardener planted a bed of roses »
8. 3. a depression forming the ground under a body of water

   Examples

   • « he searched for treasure on the ocean bed »
9. 4. (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)

   Examples

   • « they found a bed of standstone »
10. 5. a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit

    Examples

    • « he worked in the coal beds »
11. 6. single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance

    Examples

    • « slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach »
12. 7. the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.
13. 8. a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track

    Examples

    • « the track bed had washed away »