English dictionary
bed
nounPronunciation
bɛd
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
noun
- a plot of ground in which plants are growing
noun
- a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
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
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
noun
- a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
noun
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
noun
- (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
verb
- prepare for sleep
verb
- have sexual intercourse with
verb
- put to bed
verb
- place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
verb
- furnish with a bed
Example sentences
he sat on the edge of the bed
the room had only a bed and chair
the gardener planted a bed of roses
the track bed had washed away
slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach
he worked in the coal beds
he searched for treasure on the ocean bed
they found a bed of sandstone
I usually turn in at midnight
He goes to bed at the crack of dawn
Adam knew Eve
Were you ever intimate with this man?
The children were bedded at ten o'clock
The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals