“beds” is a form of
bed
/bɛd/ noun, verb
- noun (countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep. “My cat often sleeps on my bed.”
- noun (countable) A mattress. “I find her bed too soft.”
- noun (countable) A bedframe. “That huge wood bed is too heavy for us to carry it that far.”
- noun A prepared spot in which to spend the night. “When camping, he usually makes a bed for the night from hay and a blanket.”
- noun (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest. “Go to bed!”
- noun (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep. “He's been afraid of bed since he saw the scary film.”
- noun (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime. “I read until bed.”
- noun (countable) The equipment, staffing, etc., required for a patient in a medical institution. “We have a patient who needs a bed right away.”
- verb (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep. “I usually listen to music before I bed.”
- verb (transitive) To place in a bed.
- verb (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- verb (ambitransitive) To have sex (with).
- verb (intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest.
- verb (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- verb (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- verb (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
Synonyms
tray layer stratum hay kip rack sack coitize go to bed with sleep with Formal terms coit dight enjoy feague go in unto have know lie by lie with bottom seam sleep together roll in the hay love make out make love get laid have sex do it
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją (“resting-place, plot of ground”).
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, Swedish bädd, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌳𐌹 (badi), all meaning “bed”.
The Proto-Germanic term may in turn be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to dig”) with various theories explaining the development in meaning. If it is, the term is also cognate with Ancient Greek βοθυρος (bothuros, “pit”), Latin fossa (“ditch”), Latvian bedre (“hole”), Welsh bedd (“grave”), Breton bez (“grave”); and probably also Russian бодать (bodatʹ, “to butt, gore”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch.
- noun Marriage.
- verb To place in a bed. [Obs.] Bacon.
- verb To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.
Etymology [AS. bed, bedd; akin to OS. bed, D. bed, bedde, Icel. be, Dan. bed, Sw. bädd, Goth. badi, OHG. betti, G. bett, bette, bed, beet a plat of ground; all of uncertain origin.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “bed”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details