Word.ws English Dictionary

bedgoer

bedgoer noun: a yeoman responsible for taking care of the beds.

Noun

bedgoer (plural bedgoers)

  1. (historical) A yeoman responsible for taking care of the beds.
    • One hundred men, besides officers, form the band; of these eight are ushers, four hangers, and two bedgoers. The functions of the usher are well known; but it may not be so well remembered that the ancient services of the hangers and bedgoers was to hang with tapestry and fit up chambers for...1835, Editor of "The family manual and servant's guide", Domestic Life in England (page 277)
  2. (rare) A person who retires to bed to sleep.
    • He looked round to see that the door was shut behind the last bedgoer of my little party, and then turned to me.1923, E. F. Benson, Inscrutable Decrees

Forms of bedgoer

pluralbedgoers

Origin of bedgoer

bed + goer

Questions about bedgoer

What does bedgoer mean?
Bedgoer means a yeoman responsible for taking care of the beds.
What part of speech is bedgoer?
Bedgoer is a noun.
What is the plural of bedgoer?
The plural of bedgoer is bedgoers.

Words near bedgoer in the dictionary

  1. bedful
  2. bedfuls
  3. Bedgebury
  4. Bedgebury Cross
  5. Bedgerabong
  6. bedgoer
  7. bedgoers
  8. Bedgood
  9. Bedgoods
  10. bedgown
  11. bedgowned

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bedgoer (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bedgoer.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bedgoer. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.