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beddings

beddings is the plural of bedding.

Meaning of bedding

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
  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.

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Questions about beddings

What is beddings the plural of?
Beddings is the plural of bedding.

Words near beddings in the dictionary

  1. bedding surface
  2. bedding surfaces
  3. Beddingfield
  4. Beddingfields
  5. Beddingham
  6. beddings
  7. Beddington
  8. Beddingtons
  9. Beddoes
  10. Beddoeses
  11. Beddow

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