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bd

bd is the abbreviation of boulevard.

bd is the abbreviation of bed.

Meaning of boulevard

Noun

boulevard (plural boulevards, abbreviation blvd. or blvd or bd. or bd or bl)

  1. A broad, well-paved and landscaped thoroughfare.
    • We live on Sunset Boulevard.
  2. The landscaping on the sides of a boulevard or other thoroughfare.
  3. A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
  4. (Upper Midwestern US) The grassy area in the middle of some streets; a refuge island.

See all 5 meanings of boulevard

Meaning of bed

Noun

bed (countable and uncountable, plural beds)

  1. (countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
    • My cat often sleeps on my bed.
    1. (countable) A mattress.
      • I find her bed too soft.
    2. (countable) A bedframe.
      • That huge wood bed is too heavy for us to carry it that far.
    3. A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
      • When camping, he usually makes a bed for the night from hay and a blanket.
    4. (usually) One's place of sleep or rest.
      • Go to bed!
    5. (uncountable, usually) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
      • He's been afraid of bed since he saw the scary film.

See all 40 meanings of bed

Noun (1) capitalized: BD

BD (countable and uncountable, plural BDs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Blu-ray Disc.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of birthday.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Bachelor of Divinity.
    Synonyms:
    BDiv
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of battledress.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Behçet's disease.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of bipolar disorder.
  7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Bowen's disease.
  8. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of biographical dictionary.
  9. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of brush damp.
  10. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of business development.
  11. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of bondage and discipline.
    Synonyms:
    B and D, B & D, B/D
  12. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of broker-dealer.

Proper noun capitalized: BD

BD

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Building Design: a British architectural magazine founded in 1970.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Book of the Dead.

Noun (2) capitalized: BD

BD (plural BDs)

  1. Comics.

Noun (3) capitalized: BD

BD (plural BDs)

  1. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse for the purpose of conception.

Verb capitalized: BD

BD (third-person singular simple present BDs, present participle BDing, simple past and past participle BDed or BD'd)

  1. (colloquial) To have sexual intercourse for the purpose of conception.
    • We haven't BD since day 21 (we had already BD 11 times in past 2 weeks).1997 July 15, “I Need Advice on Temps!”, in misc.kids.pregnancy (Usenet)
    • Temperature is up. That means I ovulated yesterday, so I can figure out how well we did this cycle. Hmmm, BD’d two days before ovulation and the day of. That’s pretty good.2012, Jean M. Twenge, Impatient Woman’s Guide to Getting Pregnant, New York: Atria Paperback, published 2016, →ISBN, page 165

Noun (4) capitalized: Bd

Bd

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of board, in the sense of a board of directors.

Synonyms of bd

Forms of bd

Noun
pluralbds
pluralBDs
Verb
third-person singular presentBDs
present participleBDing
past participleBDed
pastBDed
past participleBD'd
pastBD'd

Origin of bd

Initialisms.

Borrowed from French BD.

Initialism of baby dance.

Questions about bd

What does bd mean?
Bd means comics.
What is bd the abbreviation of?
Bd is the abbreviation of boulevard.
What part of speech is bd?
Bd can be a noun, a proper noun or a verb.
What is the plural of bd?
The plural of bd is bds.

Words near bd in the dictionary

  1. bcuz
  2. BCVA
  3. BCVAs
  4. BCx
  5. bcz
  6. bd
  7. BD-J
  8. BD-ROM
  9. BD-ROMs
  10. bd.
  11. bd. ft.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bd (page history and authors); BD (page history and authors); Bd (page history and authors); boulevard (page history and authors); bed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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