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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 »

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