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bedtime

/ˈbɛdtaɪm/

bedtime noun: the time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep.

Noun

bedtime (countable and uncountable, plural bedtimes)

  1. The time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep.
    • The Sultan (impatiently).—Confound this dadblasted collar-bolt! I wish it had— Izzet Aintit Wazzit Pasha (custodian of the imperial wardrobe).—Can I be of any assistance, Sire? The Sultan.—Well, you might get a can of oil and a monkey-wrench and help me off with this undershirt. It’s long past...1908 September 23, “In Turkey”, in A[rthur] H[amilton] Folwell, editor, Puck, volume LXIV, number 1647, New York, N.Y.: Keppler & Schwarzmann, →OCLC
    • I read every evening, sometimes late into the night, with the help of kerosene lamps, often secretly, past my bedtime.2004, Vartan Gregorian, The Road to Home: My Life and Times, page 55

bedtime meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Kannada

bedtime in Tamil

படுக்கும் வேளை, துயில் கொள்ளும் நேரம்

bedtime in Bengali

শোবার সময়, শয়নকাল

bedtime in Telugu

పడుకునే సమయం

bedtime in Kannada

ಮಲಗುವ ಸಮಯ, ಮಲಗುವ ಕಾಲ
More languagesFewer languages
bedtime in Gujarati
સૂવાનો સમય, પથારીનો સમય
bedtime in Vietnamese
giờ đi ngủ

Examples of bedtime in a sentence

  • The pages in his favourite book were dog-eared from years of reading it at bedtime.
  • Try not to wind up the kids too much right before bedtime.
  • I think I'll just go to bed, it's bedtime for me.

All 28 example sentences with bedtime

Forms of bedtime

pluralbedtimes

Plural of bedtime: bedtimes

Origin of bedtime

From Middle English bedtyme, bed-tyme, bedetyme, bedde tyme, equivalent to bed + time. Compare earlier Old English bedtīd (“bedtime”). Compare also West Frisian bêdtiid (“bedtime”), Dutch bedtijd (“bedtime”), Saterland Frisian Bädegungenstied (“bedtime”, literally “bed-goings-time”), German Low German Beddgahnstied, Bettgahnstiet (“bedtime”, literally “bed-goings-time”).

Words formed from bedtime

Phrases with bedtime

Questions about bedtime

What does bedtime mean?
Bedtime means the time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep.
What is bedtime in Tamil?
Bedtime in Tamil is படுக்கும் வேளை, துயில் கொள்ளும் நேரம். See Bedtime meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bedtime?
Bedtime is a noun.
How do you pronounce bedtime?
Bedtime is pronounced /ˈbɛdtaɪm/.
What is the plural of bedtime?
The plural of bedtime is bedtimes.

Words near bedtime in the dictionary

  1. bedtables
  2. bedtick
  3. bedticking
  4. bedtickings
  5. bedticks
  6. bedtime
  7. bedtime procrastination
  8. bedtime stories
  9. bedtime story
  10. bedtimes
  11. bedtop

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bedtime (page history and authors); bedtime (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bedtime (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bedtime (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bedtime (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bedtime (Gujarati, 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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