bed
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleepingSenses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.: To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
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Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 2
Examples
3238 sentencesTom went to bed an hour ago.
ruТом пошёл спать час назад. — marafon
I went to bed a little after midnight.
deIch bin kurz nach Mitternacht ins Bett gegangen. — Waldelfe
I went to bed a little earlier than usual.
ruЯ лёг спать чуть раньше обычного. — odexed
deIch bin ein bisschen früher als sonst zu Bett gegangen. — pne
Meaning
11 sensesSenses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
(intransitive)To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
I usually listen to music before I bed.
schlafen gehen, sich betten
put to bed
(transitive)To furnish with a bed or bedding.
furnish with a bed
Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
(transitive)To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
More meanings 8
Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
(transitive)To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded.
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
(transitive)To place in a bed.
(intransitive)Of large game animals: to be at rest.
Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
(transitive)To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
(transitive)To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
(transitive)To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
To settle, as machinery.
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
(ambitransitive)To have sex (with).
Origin
Inherited from Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd, from Proto-West GermanicInherited from Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją (“resting-place, plot of ground”).
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Forms
beds, bedding, bedded, beddedTenses
bed · bedded · will bed · have beddedPhrasal verbs
3 phrasal verbs- bed inTo allow or help to settle in; to make (someone) feel at home.
- bed downTo lie down to sleep for the night, usually of livestock or machinery, or of people when sleeping somewhere worse than normal, often camping or in prison.
- bed outTo transfer a young plant from an inside location such as a greenhouse to an outdoors flower bed.
Synonyms
31 synonyms- have sexual intercourse with:sleep togetherroll in the haylovemake outmake lovesleep withhave sexknow
- prepare for sleep:go to bedturn incrawl inkip downhit the hayhit the sacksack outgo to sleep
Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
Collocations
10 patterns- go to bed
- out of bed
- stay in bed
- sick in bed
- bed early
- be in bed
- bed before midnight
- in bed all
- bed early tonight
- in bed for
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.