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bedward

bedward adverb: toward bed.

Adverb

bedward (comparative more bedward, superlative most bedward)

  1. Toward bed.

Proper noun capitalized: Bedward

Bedward

  1. (slang) The ship of characters Bella Swan and Edward Cullen from the Twilight series.
    • My problems with the series go further than Bedward's "relationship."2010, Gabrielle Abutom, "'Twilight' is a sick, twisted series", Daily Titan (California State University, Fullerton), 11 October 2010, page 4
    • When Bedward's desire to touch each other becomes unbearable, the overwhelming sexual tension is handily dispersed into a far less exciting bodily necessity: hunger.2013 February 12, Poppy Bullard, “In Defence of Twilight, sort of”, in Nouse, University of York, page M5

Forms of bedward

comparativemore bedward
superlativemost bedward
alternative formbedwards

Origin of bedward

From bed + -ward.

Blend of Bella + Edward.

Words formed from bedward

Questions about bedward

What does bedward mean?
Bedward means toward bed.
What part of speech is bedward?
Bedward can be an adverb or a proper noun.

Words near bedward in the dictionary

  1. bedusts
  2. bedutch
  3. bedutched
  4. bedutches
  5. bedutching
  6. bedward
  7. Bedwardism
  8. Bedwardite
  9. Bedwardites
  10. bedwards
  11. bedwarf

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