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BEDDED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bedded mean?
• BEDDED (adjective)
The adjective BEDDED has 2 senses:
1. deposited or arranged in horizontal layers
2. having a bed or beds as specified
Familiarity information: BEDDED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deposited or arranged in horizontal layers
Synonyms:
bedded; stratified
Context example:
stratified rock
Similar:
foliaceous; foliate; foliated ((especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata)
laminal; laminar (arranged in or consisting of laminae)
layered; superimposed (with one layer on top of another)
sheetlike (resembling a sheet)
Domain category:
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having a bed or beds as specified
Similar:
double-bedded (having a double bed)
single-bedded (having single beds)
twin-bedded (having twin beds)
Domain usage:
combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)
Antonym:
bedless (without a bed)
Context examples
My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was the fellow who had been stunned at first by the thousands of books in the free library, and who had afterward learned his way among them and mastered them; he was the fellow who had burned the midnight oil and bedded with a spur and written books himself.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary after my night of adventure.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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