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bedstead

Meaninga bed

Common meaning: supporting frame of a bed

Journey through time

  1. Old Englishbed‘a bed’sourceB&T
  2. Middle Englishmeaning shiftsa bed → bed placebedstede‘bed place’source
  3. Englishmeaning shiftsbed place → supporting frame of a bedbedstead‘supporting frame of a bed’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Old English bed ‘a bed’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry BEDSTEAD, p. 56 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • bed Old English “a bed, a couch”

Related words

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