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Meaning of bed in English
Pronunciation
/bɛd/
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Verb
bed
Definitions
1.
furnish with a bed
Examples
« The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals »
2.
place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
3.
put to bed
Examples
« The children were bedded at ten o'clock »
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.
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
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 »
2.
a plot of ground in which plants are growing
Examples
« the gardener planted a bed of roses »
3.
a depression forming the ground under a body of water
Examples
« he searched for treasure on the ocean bed »
4.
(geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
Examples
« they found a bed of standstone »
5.
a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
Examples
« he worked in the coal beds »
6.
single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
Examples
« slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach »
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.
8.
a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
Examples
« the track bed had washed away »