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- [goh too bed]
- /goʊ tu bɛd/
- /ɡəʊ tuː bed/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [goh too bed]
- /goʊ tu bɛd/
Definitions of go to bed words
- noun go to bed a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well. 1
- noun go to bed the mattress and bedclothes together with the bedstead of a bed. 1
- noun go to bed the bedstead alone. 1
- noun go to bed the act of or time for sleeping: Now for a cup of cocoa and then bed. 1
- noun go to bed the use of a bed for the night; lodging: I reserved a bed at the old inn. 1
- noun go to bed the marital relationship. 1
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Origin of go to bed
First appearance:
before 1000 One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English; Old English bedd; cognate with Old Frisian, Dutch bed, Old Saxon bed(de), Old High German betti (German Bett), Gothic badi < Germanic *badjan (neuter); akin to Latin fodere to dig, OCS bodǫ, Lithuanian bedù I pierce, Welsh bedd a grave; presumably a bed was dug out in the ground
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Parts of speech for Go to bed
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
go to bed popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
go to bed usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for go to bed
verb go to bed
- couple — If you refer to a couple of people or things, you mean two or approximately two of them, although the exact number is not important or you are not sure of it.
- breed — A breed of a pet animal or farm animal is a particular type of it. For example, terriers are a breed of dog.
- fornicate — to commit fornication.
- mate — a tealike South American beverage made from the dried leaves of an evergreen tree.
- conjugate — When pupils or teachers conjugate a verb, they give its different forms in a particular order.
Antonyms for go to bed
verb go to bed
- uncouple — to release the coupling or link between; disconnect; let go: to uncouple railroad cars.
- abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
- refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- divide — to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
- separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
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