bed

bed is a 3-letter English word with 35 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 35 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.
2. noun. (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
3. noun. A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
4. noun. A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.
5. noun. The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.
6. noun. A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.
7. noun. See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
8. noun. The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.
9. noun. A course of stone or brick in a wall.
10. noun. The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.
11. noun. The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
12. noun. The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine.
13. noun. The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
14. noun. The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
15. transitive verb. To place in a bed.
16. transitive verb. To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.
17. transitive verb. To furnish with a bed or bedding.
18. transitive verb. To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.
19. transitive verb. To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock.
20. transitive verb. To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.
21. transitive verb. To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
22. intransitive verb. To go to bed; to cohabit.
23. noun. a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep

    "he sat on the edge of the bed"

    "the room had only a bed and chair"

24. noun. a plot of ground in which plants are growing

    "the gardener planted a bed of roses"

25. noun. a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track

    "the track bed had washed away"

26. noun. the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.
27. noun. single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance

    "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach"

    Synonyms: layer

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

    "he worked in the coal beds"

    Synonyms: seam

29. noun. a depression forming the ground under a body of water

    "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed"

    Synonyms: bottom

30. noun. (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)

    "they found a bed of sandstone"

31. verb. prepare for sleep

    "I usually turn in at midnight"

    "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn"

    Synonyms: retire

32. verb. have sexual intercourse with

    "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"

    "Adam knew Eve"

    Synonyms: bang, bonk, eff, fuck, hump, jazz, know, love, screw

33. verb. put to bed

    "The children were bedded at ten o'clock"

34. verb. place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
35. verb. furnish with a bed

    "The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals"

Synonyms

layer, seam, bottom, retire, bang, bonk, eff, fuck, hump, jazz, know, love, screw

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bed:

bde, deb

Common word forms

beds, beden, bedded, bedder, bedding, bedless

Words from these letters

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