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Quick definitions from WordNet (bed)
▸ noun: a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep ("He sat on the edge of the bed")
▸ noun: a plot of ground in which plants are growing ("The gardener planted a bed of roses")
▸ noun: a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track ("The track bed had washed away")
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: a depression forming the ground under a body of water ("He searched for treasure on the ocean bed")
▸ noun: (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock) ("They found a bed of sandstone")
▸ noun: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance ("Slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach")
▸ noun: a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit ("He worked in the coal beds")
▸ verb: furnish with a bed ("The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals")
▸ verb: put to bed ("The children were bedded at ten o'clock")
▸ verb: place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
▸ verb: have sexual intercourse with
▸ verb: go to bed in order to sleep
▸ Also see beds
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to bed
▸ Usage examples for bed
▸ Idioms related to bed (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing bed
▸ Words that often appear near bed
▸ Rhymes of bed
▸ Invented words related to bed
▸ noun: a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep ("He sat on the edge of the bed")
▸ noun: a plot of ground in which plants are growing ("The gardener planted a bed of roses")
▸ noun: a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track ("The track bed had washed away")
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: a depression forming the ground under a body of water ("He searched for treasure on the ocean bed")
▸ noun: (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock) ("They found a bed of sandstone")
▸ noun: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance ("Slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach")
▸ noun: a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit ("He worked in the coal beds")
▸ verb: furnish with a bed ("The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals")
▸ verb: put to bed ("The children were bedded at ten o'clock")
▸ verb: place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
▸ verb: have sexual intercourse with
▸ verb: go to bed in order to sleep
▸ Also see beds
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to bed
▸ Usage examples for bed
▸ Idioms related to bed (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing bed
▸ Words that often appear near bed
▸ Rhymes of bed
▸ Invented words related to bed