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beds

/bɛdz/

beds is the plural of bed.

beds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bed.

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.

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Noun capitalized: BEDs

BEDs

  1. (plural) plural of BED

Proper noun capitalized: Beds

Beds

  1. (UK, abbreviation) Abbreviation of Bedfordshire.

Words formed from beds

Phrases with beds

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Questions about beds

What is beds the plural of?
Beds is the plural of bed.
What part of speech is beds?
Beds can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce beds?
Beds is pronounced /bɛdz/.

Words near beds in the dictionary

  1. bedrugging
  2. bedrugs
  3. bedrum
  4. bedrunk
  5. bedrunken
  6. beds
  7. beds down
  8. beds in
  9. beds of down
  10. beds of honour
  11. beds of justice

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beds (page history and authors); BEDs (page history and authors); Beds (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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