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bedding

/ˈbɛdɪŋ/

bedding noun: the textiles associated with a bed, e.g., sheets, pillowcases, bedspreads, blankets, etc. Also the present participle and gerund of bed.

bedding: the textiles associated with a bed, e.g., sheets, pillowcases, bedspreads, blankets, etc
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Noun

bedding (countable and uncountable, plural beddings)

  1. The textiles associated with a bed, e.g., sheets, pillowcases, bedspreads, blankets, etc.
    • Hire of bedding, and food in the restaurant cars is cheap, and passengers are officially encouraged not to tip company's servants—but they do.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 263
    • Similarly, the biotech giant Cargill has begun manufacturing a polymer from vegetable oils that is used in polyurethane foams, which is found in beddings, furniture and car-seat headrests.2008 April 9, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, “Harnessing Biology, and Avoiding Oil, for Chemical Goods”, in New York Times
  2. (UK) The textiles associated with the bed, as well as the mattress, bedframe, or bed base (such as box spring).
  3. Any material used by or provided to animals to lie on.
    Synonyms:
    litter
  4. A structure occurring in granite and similar massive rocks that allows them to split in well-defined planes horizontally or parallel to the land surface.
  5. The temporary planting of fast-growing plants into flower beds to create colourful, temporary, seasonal displays, during spring, summer or winter.

Proper noun capitalized: Bedding

Bedding (plural Beddings)

  1. A surname.

Also used as

bedding is also the present participle and gerund of bed.

bedding meaning in Bengali and Punjabi

bedding in Bengali

বিছানার ব্যবস্থা

bedding in Punjabi

bedlinen
ਬਿਸਤਰਾ bistarā

Examples of bedding in a sentence

  • Dikes may be discordant to country rock if they intrude at a high angle to the bedding.
  • The crew of the submarine quickly got used to hot bedding.
  • Forest animals use leaf litter in a variety of ways, including as food, shelter, nesting material, bedding, and camouflage.

All 36 example sentences with bedding

Synonyms of bedding

Forms of bedding

Noun
pluralbeddings
Proper noun
pluralBeddings

Plural of bedding: beddings

Origin of bedding

From Middle English bedding, beddyng, from Old English bedding (“bedding”), equivalent to bed + -ing.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Words formed from bedding

Phrases with bedding

Words that rhyme with bedding

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Questions about bedding

What does bedding mean?
Bedding means the textiles associated with a bed, e.g., sheets, pillowcases, bedspreads, blankets, etc.
What is bedding in Bengali?
Bedding in Bengali is বিছানার ব্যবস্থা. See Bedding meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is bedding?
Bedding can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bedding?
Bedding is pronounced /ˈbɛdɪŋ/ (US).
What is the plural of bedding?
The plural of bedding is beddings.

Words near bedding in the dictionary

  1. Beddgelert
  2. beddie
  3. beddie-bye
  4. beddie-byes
  5. beddies
  6. bedding
  7. bedding down
  8. bedding in
  9. bedding out
  10. bedding plane
  11. bedding planes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bedding (page history and authors); Bedding (page history and authors); bedding (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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