Bed | Mean of bed in English Dictionary

/ˈbɛd/

• Noun
• a piece of furniture that people sleep on
1. The room contains only a bed and a dresser.
2. There are two beds in the hotel room.
3. a hospital bed
4. a single bed [=a bed for one person]
5. a double bed [=a bed for two people]
6. He lay on the bed [=on top of the sheets, blankets, and bedspread] for a long time.
7. Don't forget to make the bed. [=to neatly arrange the sheets, blankets, and bedspread on the bed so that the mattress is covered]
8. He became ill and took to his bed. [=he went to lie in bed for a long time]
9. She usually goes to bed [=lies down in her bed to sleep] around 11:00.
10. It's time to get out of bed. [=get up]
11. He lay/stayed in bed all morning.
12. The kids like to hear a story before bed. [=before they go to sleep]
13. Have you put the children to bed? [=have you prepared the children to go to sleep and put them in their beds?]
14. Come on, children. It's time for bed. [=bedtime, time to sleep]
• something that is used to sleep on
1. The blanket by the fireplace is the dog's bed.
2. Her bed was a mound of soft pine needles.
• a small area of ground specially prepared for plants
1. I'm planning on putting a bed of perennials in that corner of the yard.
2. a bed of flowers

• a flat pile or layer of something
1. a bed of coals
• a flat pile or layer of food that is placed on a dish with other food on top of it
1. grilled fish served on a bed of greens
2. a bed of rice
• the ground that is at the bottom of a sea, lake, etc.
1. seaweed growing on the ocean bed [=floor]
• an area of shallow water where something grows
1. an oyster bed [=an area where there are many oysters]
• a layer of rock or some other material from inside the earth
1. fossil beds
2. a bed of shale
• the platform or box in the back of some kinds of trucks
1. the bed of the truck
2. We loaded the equipment and put a cover over the truck bed.
• to be in a bad mood throughout the day
1. Be careful when you talk to the boss. He got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
• a bed that married people share
1. the sorrows of their marriage bed
• Verb
• to have sex with (someone)
1. He has fantasies about bedding a fashion model.
• to place (food) on a pile or layer of something else
1. a mixture of scallops and lobster bedded on rice
• to lie down somewhere for sleep
1. There were so many people that some of us had to bed down in the living room.
• to provide (a person or animal) with a place to sleep
1. They bedded us down in the living room.
2. When the animals had been fed and bedded down, we went inside to eat dinner.