bed
Meanings
- A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- One's place of sleep or rest.
- Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- Time spent in a bed.
- Marriage.
- Sexual activity.
- Clipping of bedroom.
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
- To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
- To place in a bed.
- To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- To have sex (with).
- Of large game animals: to be at rest.
- Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
- To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- Alternative form of B.Ed. (Bachelor of Education).
- Initialism of banana equivalent dose.
- Initialism of binge eating disorder.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *badją Proto-West Germanic *badi Old English bedd Middle English bed English bed Inherited from Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją (“resting-place, plot of ground”). Cognates Cognate with Scots bed, North Frisian baad, beed, Bēr, Saterland Frisian Bääd, West Frisian bêd, Cimbrian pett, Dutch bed, Dutch Low Saxon bedde, German Bett, Bette, German Low German Bedd, Luxembourgish Bett, Vilamovian bet, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål bed, Faroese and Icelandic beð, beður, Norwegian Nynorsk bed, bedd, Swedish bädd, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌳𐌹 (badi), all meaning “bed”. further possible etymology and cognates The Proto-Germanic term may in turn be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to dig”) with various theories explaining the development in meaning. If it is, the term is also cognate with Ancient Greek βοθυρος (bothuros, “pit”), Latin fossa (“ditch”), Latvian bedre (“hole”), Welsh bedd (“grave”), Breton bez (“grave”); and probably also Russian бодать (bodatʹ, “to butt, gore”).