bed

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep

   They sat on the edge of the bed.

2. 2
   noun

   a plot of ground in which plants are growing

   the gardener planted a bed of roses

3. 3
   noun

   a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track

   the track bed had washed away

4. 4
   noun

   single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance

   slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach

5. 5
   noun

   a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit

   The company stripped the top of the mountain off to expose coal beds.

6. 6
   noun

   a depression forming the ground under a body of water

   They searched for treasure on the ocean bed.

7. 7
   noun

   (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)

   they found a bed of sandstone

8. 8
   verb

   to have sexual intercourse with

   I bedded them after dinner.

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,…