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Meaning & Definition of Bed in English

English

Bed

/bɛd/

noun

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"
synonym:
  • bed

2. A plot of ground in which plants are growing

  • "The gardener planted a bed of roses"
synonym:
  • bed

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

  • "He searched for treasure on the ocean bed"
synonym:
  • bed,
  • bottom

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

  • "They found a bed of sandstone"
synonym:
  • bed

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

  • "He worked in the coal beds"
synonym:
  • seam,
  • bed

6. Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance

  • "Slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach"
synonym:
  • layer,
  • bed

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.

synonym:
  • bed

8. A foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track

  • "The track bed had washed away"
synonym:
  • bed

verb

1. Furnish with a bed

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

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

synonym:
  • bed

3. Put to bed

  • "The children were bedded at ten o'clock"
synonym:
  • bed

4. Have sexual intercourse with

  • "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"
  • "Adam knew eve"
  • "Were you ever intimate with this man?"
synonym:
  • sleep together,
  • roll in the hay,
  • love,
  • make out,
  • make love,
  • sleep with,
  • get laid,
  • have sex,
  • know,
  • do it,
  • be intimate,
  • have intercourse,
  • have it away,
  • have it off,
  • screw,
  • fuck,
  • jazz,
  • eff,
  • hump,
  • lie with,
  • bed,
  • have a go at it,
  • bang,
  • get it on,
  • bonk

5. Prepare for sleep

  • "I usually turn in at midnight"
  • "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn"
synonym:
  • go to bed,
  • turn in,
  • bed,
  • crawl in,
  • kip down,
  • hit the hay,
  • hit the sack,
  • sack out,
  • go to sleep,
  • retire

Examples of using

I rolled out of bed last night.
Tom's life with Mary was no bed of roses.
Tom tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep.