bedding
- 1Sheets, blankets, pillows, and covers that you put on a bed.
Like the clothes you put on a bed instead of on your body.
She washed the bedding and hung it out to dry.
We bought new bedding for the spare room.
Similarbedclothes, bedlinen, bedsheet
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- 2Straw, hay, or other soft material that animals lie on.
Like a soft mat that an animal sleeps on.
The farmer spread fresh bedding in the horse's stall.
Hamsters need clean bedding in their cage.
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- 3The sheets and covers of a bed, plus the mattress and the frame.
Like buying the whole bed: the part you sleep on and the part that holds it up.
They delivered the new bedding, mattress and all, on Saturday.
The shop sells bedding in its upstairs furniture department.
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- 4Present participle of bed. Use this -ing form when the action is happening now or ongoing.
They are bedding the new plants into the border.
The crew is bedding the pipes in soft sand.
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- 5Planting quick-growing flowers in beds to make a colorful display for one season.
Like putting out fresh flowers just for one season, then swapping them for new ones.
The park's summer bedding fills the borders with bright color.
They use bedding to brighten the square every spring.
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- 6A pattern in rocks like granite that lets them break apart in flat layers.
Like the way some rocks break into flat sheets, similar to how wood splits along its grain.
The granite's bedding made it easy to cut flat slabs.
Quarry workers split the rock along its natural bedding.
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bedding is a form of bed
bed, verb: To go to sleep for the night. Full entry
- Spelling
- bed → bedding: double the d, add -ing
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Origins
From an Old English word bedding, made from bed plus -ing.
From bed plus -ing.