bednoun
uk/bed/us/bed/bed noun (FURNITURE)
A1 [ C or U ] a large, rectangular piece of furniture, often with four legs, used for sleeping on:
B2 to make a bed neat after you have slept in it
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- Martha threw back the covers and bounced out of bed.
- I bent down to look under the bed.
- I didn't even have the energy to get out of bed.
- Tidy up your room. And don't forget to make your bed!
- I want to finish off this essay before I go to bed.
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Beds & parts of beds
- air mattress
- airbed
- bassinet
- bedpost
- bedside
- berth
- carrycot
- couch
- couchette
- crib
- divan
- double bed
- headboard
- Li-lo
- mattress
- queen-size
- rollaway
- trundle bed
- twin bed
- waterbed
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bed noun (BOTTOM)
C2 [ C ] the bottom of something, or something that serves as a base:
a pile of one type of food on which other food is arranged as a meal:
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Surfaces of objects
- -backed
- back
- base
- crust
- face
- facet
- flange
- fore
- front
- nap
- plate
- rear
- reverse
- side
- superficialis
- surface
- surface area
- underneath
- underside
- ventral
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bed noun (AREA OF GROUND)
C2 [ C ] a piece of ground used for growing plants outside:
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Parts of gardens
- arbour
- border
- bower
- flower bed
- herbaceous border
- kitchen garden
- lawn
- patio
- rock garden
- rockery
- shrubbery
- terrace
Idiom(s)
bedverb [ T ]
uk/bed/us/bed/-dd-bed verb [ T ] (PUT)
to put something firmly into a substance or into the ground:
bed verb [ T ] (SEX)
old-fashioned to have sex with someone