bed

/bed/
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Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A piece of furniture for sleeping or resting: A bed is typically a piece of furniture with a frame and mattress where people sleep or lie down.
    • A plot of ground for plants: A bed is an area of ground in a garden or yard where plants, such as flowers or vegetables, are grown.
    • The bottom of a body of water: A bed is the ground that lies under a river, lake, or sea.
    • A layer or stratum of material: A bed is a distinct layer of rock, soil, or other material.
    • A supporting base or foundation: A bed is a solid base or foundation, such as for a road, railroad track, or machine.

  2. Verb:

    • To go to bed; to retire for sleep: To bed means to go to one's bed to sleep.
    • To plant in a garden bed: To bed means to place plants into a prepared area of soil.
    • To provide with a bed or lodging: To bed means to furnish someone with a place to sleep.
    • To have sexual intercourse (archaic/formal): This is an older or more formal use of the verb bed.
Usage Examples

  • Noun:

    • She sat on the edge of the bed to put on her shoes.
    • We planted tulips in the flower bed.
    • The river bed was dry during the summer drought.
    • The geologist studied a bed of limestone.
    • The heavy machine was placed on a concrete bed.

  • Verb:

    • The children were bedded by nine o'clock.
    • He bedded the young seedlings carefully.
    • The inn could bed up to twenty travelers.
    • (Archaic) The king bedded his new queen.
Advanced Usage

  • "A bed of roses": An easy, comfortable, or pleasant situation.

    • Life as a student is not always a bed of roses.

  • "To get out of bed on the wrong side": To start the day in a bad mood.

    • He's been grumpy all morning; he must have gotten out of bed on the wrong side.

  • "To make one's bed and lie in it": To accept the consequences of one's own actions.

    • You chose to skip class, so now you have to make your bed and lie in it.
Variants and Related Words

  • Bedding (n): The sheets, blankets, and other coverings used on a bed.

    • She changed the bedding on Sunday.

  • Bedridden (adj): Confined to bed because of illness or weakness.

    • The patient was bedridden for weeks.

  • Riverbed (n): The channel in which a river flows. (Note: This is a compound word listed here as a variant.)

    • They walked along the dry riverbed.
Synonyms
  • Noun (for furniture): Berth, bunk, cot.
  • Noun (for garden plot): Patch, plot.
  • Noun (for layer): Stratum, layer, seam.
  • Verb (to sleep): Retire, turn in.
Related Phrasal Verbs

  • Bed down:

    • To arrange sleeping quarters; to settle for the night.
      • The soldiers bedded down in the barn.
    • To provide an animal with straw or other material for sleeping.
      • He went to bed down the horses for the night.

  • Bed out: To transfer and plant seedlings into a garden bed.

    • It's time to bed out the tomato plants.
Related Idioms

  • Early to bed and early to rise: A proverb advocating a lifestyle of going to sleep and waking up early.

    • My grandfather believes in "early to bed and early to rise."

  • To be brought to bed (of): An old-fashioned phrase meaning to give birth.

    • (Archaic) She was brought to bed of a healthy boy.
Noun
  1. a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
    • the track bed had washed away
  2. 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.
  3. single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
    • slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach
  4. a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
    • he worked in the coal beds
  5. (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
    • they found a bed of sandstone
  6. a depression forming the ground under a body of water
    • he searched for treasure on the ocean bed
  7. a plot of ground in which plants are growing
    • the gardener planted a bed of roses
  8. 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
Verb
  1. prepare for sleep
    • I usually turn in at midnight
    • He goes to bed at the crack of dawn
  2. have sexual intercourse with
    • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
    • Adam knew Eve
    • Were you ever intimate with this man?
  3. put to bed
    • The children were bedded at ten o'clock
  4. place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
  5. furnish with a bed
    • The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals

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