You can make 6 words from bed according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 3 letters words made out of bed
bed ebd bde dbe edb deb
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word bed. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in bed.
Definitions and meaning of bed
bed
Etymology
From Middle Englishbed, bedde, from Old Englishbedd, from Proto-West Germanic*badi, from Proto-Germanic*badją(“resting-place, plot of ground”).
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /bɛd/
(AAVE, some speakers) IPA(key): [beː]
(General Australian) IPA(key): /bed/
Rhymes: -ɛd
Noun
bed (pluralbeds)
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
(usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
(uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
(uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
(uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
(figurative) Marriage.
(figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.
Clipping of bedroom.
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river. [from later 16thc.]
An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
A garden plot.
A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
Synonym:tray
Hyponym:truckbed
A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
(printing, dated) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
(computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
(darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
(trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
(heading)A layer or surface.
A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
(geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
Synonyms:layer, stratum
(masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
(masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
(masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
Usage notes
Sense 1. To prepare a bed is usually to "make" the bed, or (US, Southern) to "spread" the bed, the verb spread probably having been developed from bedspread.
Like many nouns denoting places where people spend time, bed requires no article after certain prepositions: hence in bed(“lying in a bed”), go to bed(“get into a bed”), and so on. The forms in a bed, etc. do exist, but tend to imply mere presence in the bed, without it being for the purpose of sleep.
See also Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Chichewa: bedi
→ Chuukese: pet
→ Esperanto: bedo
→ Japanese: ベッド(beddo)
Translations
Verb
bed (third-person singular simple presentbeds, present participlebedding, simple past and past participlebedded)
Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
(intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
(transitive) To place in a bed.
(transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
(transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with). [from early 14th c.]
Synonyms:coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
(intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest.
Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
(transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes
Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded.
(transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
(transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
(transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
(transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
To settle, as machinery.
Derived terms
bed down
embed
Translations
References
Further reading
bed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
BDE, DBE, DEB, Deb, Deb., EBD, Edb., deb
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutchbed, from Middle Dutchbedde, from Old Dutchbedde, from Proto-Germanic*badją.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /bɛt/
Noun
bed (pluralbeddens, diminutivebedjie)
bed
Synonym:kooi
Breton
Alternative forms
béd(Skolveurieg)
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic*bɨd, from Proto-Celtic*bitus. Cognates include Welshbyd and Cornishbys.
Noun
bedm (pluralbedoù)
world
universe
Mutation
References
Ian Press (1986) A grammar of modern Breton, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 322
Danish
Etymology 1
From GermanBeet(“bed for plants”), originally the same word as Bett(“bed for sleeping”), from Proto-Germanic*badją, cognate with Englishbed and Swedishbädd.
From Old Norsebeitf(“pasturage”), Old Norsebeitaf(“bait”), from Proto-Germanic*baitō(“food, bait”), cognate with GermanBeize(“mordant”) (whence Danishbejdse).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈb̥eˀð], [ˈb̥eðˀ]
Noun
bed (definitive pluralbedene)
(obsolete)pasturage
only in the expression: gå nogen i bedene "poach on someone's preserves"
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈb̥eˀð], [ˈb̥eðˀ]
Verb
bed
past of bide
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
From Proto-Germanic*badją(“dug sleeping-place”), from Proto-Indo-European*bʰedʰ-(“to dig”). Cognate with Old Frisianbed, Old Englishbedd, Dutchbed, Old High Germanbetti, Old Norsebeðr, Gothic𐌱𐌰𐌳𐌹(badi). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greekβοθυρος(bothuros, “pit”), Latinfossa(“ditch”), Latvianbedre(“hole”), Welshbedd, Bretonbez(“grave”).