bed – English noun declension

English noun forms of bed

Noun: bed
Singularbed
Pluralbeds

Sample Sentences

  • My cat often sleeps on my bed.
  • I keep a glass of water next to my bed when I sleep.
  • At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them[…]. [1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools, volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202:]
  • I find her bed too soft.
  • That huge wood bed is too heavy for us to carry it that far.
  • When camping, he usually makes a bed for the night from hay and a blanket.
  • Go to bed!
  • I had breakfast in bed this morning.
  • He's been afraid of bed since he saw the scary film.
  • I read until bed.
  • We have a patient who needs a bed right away.
  • I am quite sure that too much bed, if not too much sleep, is prejudicial, though a certain amount is absolutely necessary. [1903, Thomas Stretch Dowse, Lectures on Massage and Electricity in the Treatment of Disease, page 276:]
  • Some prisoners, indeed, are always up before the bell rings — such was my practice — they prefer to grope about in the dark to tossing about in the utter weariness of too much bed. [1907, Jabez Spencer Balfour, My Prison Life, page 181:]
  • This condition is one of the dangers of “too much bed”. The nurse should inspect the legs of each patient daily [1972, James Verney Cable, Principles of Medicine: An Integrated Textbook for Nurses:]
  • George, the eldest son of his second bed. [1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:]
  • Too much bed, not enough rest.
  • 2 beds, 1 bath
  • The meats and cheeses lay on a bed of lettuce.
  • sea bed
  • river bed
  • There’s a lot of trash on the bed of the river.
  • Oysters are farmed from their beds.
  • I knew that there were kelp beds and reefs which could rip the bottoms from boats down in Skedans Bay. [1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck:]
  • We added a new bush to our rose bed.
  • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines. [1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:]
  • A bed of concrete makes a strong subsurface for an asphalt parking lot.
  • The parcels were loaded onto the truck bed before transportation.
  • These 5 judges mark the athlete's staying in the center of the bed, uniformity of bounce heights, and general style. [2000, Sports: The Complete Visual Reference:]
  • the upper and lower beds

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *badją
3. Proto-West Germanic *badi
4. Old English bedd
5. Middle English bed
6. English bed
7. Inherited from Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją (“resting-place, plot of ground”).
8. Cognates
9. 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”.
10. further possible etymology and cognates
11. 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”). See: Middle English Nouns 'bed', Middle English Nouns 'bed', Old English Nouns 'bedd', Dutch Nouns 'bed', German Nouns 'Bett', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'bed', Swedish Nouns 'bädd', Gothic Nouns '𐌱𐌰𐌳𐌹', Latin Nouns 'fossa', Latvian Nouns 'bedre'.

Verbs referencing "bed"

Danish Nouns bed, German Nouns Bett, Gothic Nouns 𐌱𐌰𐌳𐌹, Zulu Nouns umbhede.