Etimology
From Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją (“resting-place, plot of ground”).
noun
bed (plural beds)
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
(heading) A layer or surface.
Examples
My cat often sleeps on my bed.
I keep a glass of water next to my bed when I sleep.
At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […].
When camping, he usually makes a bed for the night from hay and a blanket.
Go to bed!
I had breakfast in bed this morning.
He's been afraid of bed since he saw the scary film.
I read until bed.
I am quite sure that too much bed, if not too much sleep, is prejudicial, though a certain amount is absolutely necessary.
Some prisoners, indeed, are always up before the bell rings — such was my practice — they prefer to grope about in the dark to tossing about in the utter weariness of too much bed.
This condition is one of the dangers of "too much bed". The nurse should inspect the legs of each patient daily
George, the eldest son of his second bed.
Too much bed, not enough rest.
2 beds, 1 bath
The meats and cheeses lay on a bed of lettuce.
sea bed
river bed
There's a lot of trash on the bed of the river.
Oysters are farmed from their beds.
I knew that there were kelp beds and reefs which could rip the bottoms from boats down in Skedans Bay.
We added a new bush to our rose bed.
Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
A bed of concrete makes a strong subsurface for an asphalt parking lot.
Synonym: tray
Hyponym: truckbed
The parcels were loaded onto the truck bed before transportation.
These 5 judges mark the athlete's staying in the center of the bed, uniformity of bounce heights, and general style.
Synonyms: layer, stratum
the upper and lower beds
verb
bed (third-person singular simple present beds, present participle bedding, simple past and past participle bedded)
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
Examples
I usually listen to music before I bed.
For she was not only publicly contracted, but stated as a bride, and solemnly bedded, and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration
Synonyms: coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
And he who lies with another Man's Wife after she is married, even before her Husband had bedded with her, is guilty of Adultery, […]
Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded.
But I must warn you that chipboard floors are always likely to squeak. The material is still being used in new-builds, but developers now use adhesive to bed and joint it, rather than screws or nails. I suspect the adhesive will eventually embrittle and crack, resulting in the same squeaking problems as before.
Your bedded hair like life in excrements