Meaning

(countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
2. A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
3. (heading) A horizontal layer or surface.
4. Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
5. Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.

Example Sentences

My cat often sleeps on my bed.

I keep a glass of water next to my bed when I sleep.

At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them[…].

The meats and cheeses lay on a bed of lettuce.

Word Forms

• beds
• bedding
• bedded

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Use bed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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