How to Spell bed

bed

bed - noun

  • A piece of furniture on or in which to lie and sleep
  • A place for sleeping
  • Sleep
  • The equipment and services needed to care for one hospitalized patient or hotel guest
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"a bed of ashes"

Etymology

Old English

Middle English, going back to Old English bedd "sleeping place, plot of ground prepared for plants," going back to Germanic *badja- (whence Old Frisian bed "sleeping place," Old High German betti, Old Norse beðr "bolster, bedding," Gothic badi "sleeping place"), of uncertain origin

Word family

beds, bedroom, bedtime

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