ABED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abed mean? 

• ABED (adverb)
  The adverb ABED has 1 sense:

1. in bed

  Familiarity information: ABED used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABED (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In bed

 Context examples 

Slip out when she’s abed.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I cursed the laziness of the servants that they should lie abed at such an hour—for it was now ten o'clock—and so rang and knocked again, but more impatiently, but still without response.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“He's at home, sir,” returned Peggotty, “but he's bad abed with the rheumatics.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"I shall lie abed late, and do nothing," replied Meg, from the depths of the rocking chair.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But after the boys were abed, he sat long before his fire with the tired look on his face and the 'heimweh', or homesickness, lying heavy at his heart.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At the present moment I lie abed (having stayed late in order to pay a compliment to the Marchioness of Dover at her ball last night), and this is writ to my dictation by Ambrose, my clever rascal of a valet.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)