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daybed

/ˈdeɪˌbɛd/

daybed noun: a couch that can be used as a sofa by day and a bed by night.

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.

Synonyms of daybed

Forms of daybed

pluraldaybeds

Origin of daybed

From day + bed.

Questions about daybed

What does daybed mean?
Daybed means a couch that can be used as a sofa by day and a bed by night.
What part of speech is daybed?
Daybed is a noun.
How do you pronounce daybed?
Daybed is pronounced /ˈdeɪˌbɛd/.
What is the plural of daybed?
The plural of daybed is daybeds.

Words near daybed in the dictionary

  1. dayawism
  2. daybeacon
  3. daybeacons
  4. daybeam
  5. daybeams
  6. daybed
  7. daybeds
  8. Daybell
  9. dayblindness
  10. dayboard
  11. dayboards

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