abed

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in bed, especially while resting, sleeping, or remaining there later than usual

   The servants were still lying abed when the doctor arrived at ten o'clock.

From Middle English abedde or on bedde, from Old English on bedde ("in bed"). The initial a- is the reduced form of the preposition on, as in asleep and ashore, so the word literally means "in or on bed."

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