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day bed

day bed is the alternative spelling of daybed.

Meaning of daybed

Noun

daybed (plural daybeds)

  1. A couch that can be used as a sofa by day and a bed by night.
    • After this exhausting work was done Agnes would lie upon her daybed with her arms dangling, too fatigued to lift them.2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 35
    Synonyms:
    sofa-bed
  2. A long chair used for reclining.

Forms of day bed

pluralday beds

Questions about day bed

What is day bed the alternative spelling of?
Day bed is the alternative spelling of daybed.

Words near day bed in the dictionary

  1. day and age
  2. day and night
  3. day at the beach
  4. day beacon
  5. day beacons
  6. day bed
  7. day beds
  8. day blind
  9. day blindness
  10. day book
  11. day books

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