mattress
/ˈmætɹɪs/
mattress noun: a pad on which a person can recline and sleep, usually having an inner section of coiled springs covered with foam or other cushioning material then enclosed with cloth fabric.
Noun
mattress (plural mattresses)
- A pad on which a person can recline and sleep, usually having an inner section of coiled springs covered with foam or other cushioning material then enclosed with cloth fabric.
- A form of retaining wall used to support foundations or an embankment
- A form of lagging, in particular for boilers.
- Spun glass mattresses are used for lagging the boiler, which has three Ross pop safety valves on the front ring.1941 April, “British Locomotive Developments”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 173
- The boiler and firebox are lagged with a lightweight Fibreglass mattress.1951 March, “British Railways Standard "Britannia" Class 4-6-2 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 185
Verb
mattress (third-person singular simple present mattresses, present participle mattressing, simple past and past participle mattressed)
- To cover with a thick layer, like a mattress; to blanket.
- A comfortable litter of pine needles had mattressed the ground and spreading branches had been a canopy overhead.1997, Andrew R. M. Patterson, A planet through a field of stars, page 123
mattress meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
mattress in Hindi
- a pad on which a person can recline and sleep
- गद्दा gaddā, गादी gādī, गद्दी gaddī, तोशक tośak
mattress in Tamil
- a pad on which a person can recline and sleep
- மெத்தை mettai
mattress in Marathi
- a pad on which a person can recline and sleep
- गादी gādī
mattress in Urdu
- a pad on which a person can recline and sleep
- توشَک tośak, گَدَّا gaddā
More languagesFewer languages
- mattress in Bengali
- তোশক tōśok
- mattress in Telugu
- పరుపు parupu, మెత్త metta
- mattress in Malayalam
- മെത്ത, ശയ്യ, കിടക്ക
- mattress in Kannada
- ಮೆತ್ತೆ mette
- mattress in Punjabi
- ਗੱਦਾ
- mattress in Gujarati
- ગાદલું gādlũ
- mattress in Assamese
- তুলী tuli
- mattress in Nepali
- गद्दा gaddā
- mattress in Pashto
- توشکه tošaka
- mattress in Tagalog
- kutson
- mattress in Arabic
- فِرَاش firāš, مَرْتَبَة martaba
- mattress in Malay
- tilam
- mattress in Indonesian
- kasur, tilam, matras
- mattress in Thai
- ฟูก fûuk, เบาะ bɔ̀
- mattress in Vietnamese
- nệm
- mattress in Myanmar
- မွေ့ရာ mwe.ra
Examples of mattress in a sentence
- Distrusting banks, the eccentric old man kept a sockful of silver coins under his mattress.
- I love that bedframe of yours, but the mattress is so uncomfortable!
- Sleep in comfort with our new mattress.
Forms of mattress
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | mattresses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | mattresses |
| present participle | mattressing |
| past participle | mattressed |
| past | mattressed |
Origin of mattress
From Middle English materas, from Old French matras, from Arabic مَطْرَح (maṭraḥ, “place where something is thrown”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw”). Compare divan, from Persian via Turkish (both of Middle Eastern origin, due to the local custom of lying on padding on floor being foreign to Europeans).
Words formed from mattress
Phrases with mattress
Questions about mattress
- What does mattress mean?
- Mattress means a pad on which a person can recline and sleep, usually having an inner section of coiled springs covered with foam or other cushioning material then enclosed with cloth fabric.
- What is mattress in Hindi?
- Mattress in Hindi is गद्दा (gaddā), गादी (gādī), गद्दी (gaddī). See Mattress meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is mattress?
- Mattress can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce mattress?
- Mattress is pronounced /ˈmætɹɪs/.
- What is the plural of mattress?
- The plural of mattress is mattresses.
Words near mattress in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mattress (page history and authors); mattress (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mattress (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); তুলী (Assamese) (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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