bed
a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
How often you will meet it
Rank 370 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 54,289 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.026% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep he sat on the edge of the bedthe room had only a bed and chair
- a plot of ground in which plants are growing the gardener planted a bed of roses
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water also: bottom he searched for treasure on the ocean bed
- (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock) they found a bed of sandstone
- a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit also: seam he worked in the coal beds
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance also: layer slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach
bed in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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What, travelling to bed with your kind wife?
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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Now go upstairs to your bed; it is already late.
A Knight of the White Cross · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1
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They beat him again, till their arms were tired, and staggered to bed.
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know · Hamilton Wright [Editor] Mabie · Chapter 1
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A lady in a stout tweed skirt, who was bending over a flower bed, straightened herself at our approach.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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She remembered them now--the gentle day-nurse and the gentle night-nurse, who had moved soft-footedly about her bed, performing soothing little offices.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1