Meaning & Definition of Bed in English

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

• "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

• "The gardener planted a bed of roses"

3. A depression forming the ground under a body of water

• "He searched for treasure on the ocean bed"

4. (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)

• "They found a bed of sandstone"

5. A stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit

• "He worked in the coal beds"

6. Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance

• "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

• "The track bed had washed away"

1. Furnish with a bed

• "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals"

2. Place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil

3. Put to bed

• "The children were bedded at ten o'clock"

4. Have sexual intercourse with

• "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"

• "Adam knew eve"

• "Were you ever intimate with this man?"

5. Prepare for sleep

• "I usually turn in at midnight"

• "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn"