Bedfellow

Quick meaning: Bedfellow is a noun meaning One with whom one shares a bed.

Meaning

One with whom one shares a bed.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) An associate, often an otherwise improbable one.

Example Sentences

Therefore, grave mistresses of fate, I pray / That I may never live to see the day / When Zeus takes me for his bedfellow;

Statistics and truth can be uneasy bedfellows when it comes to football, but one fact could not be ignored: neither side has a player with more than seven goals to his name.

Yong budding Virgin, faire, and freſh,& ſweet, / Whether away, or whether is thy aboade? / Happy the Parents of ſo faire a childe; / Happier the man whom fauourable ſtars / A lots thee for his louely bedfellow.

Certain aspects of reprint publishing are more akin to university press publishing than to any other sector of the publishing industry, but the relationships between the two frequently create unwilling bedfellows.

Word Forms

• bedfellows

Synonyms for bedfellow

Depending on context, synonyms include bedmate, bedpartner.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include households, bedmate, bedpartner, bedfellowship, bunkmate, benchfellow.

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