/bed/
Translation
A soft, flat thing that you lie on to sleep at night.
Word origin
From Old English bedd, the name for a place to sleep or rest.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- bedd
Grammar
Examples
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Here "bed" is the place where you sleep.
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"Bed" is the soft thing the cat lies on.
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"Beds" is the plural, meaning more than one bed.
A bed is a soft, flat thing in your bedroom that you lie on to sleep. You sleep in your bed at night and get out of it in the morning when you wake up.
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