GO TO BED

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does go to bed mean? 

• GO TO BED (verb)
  The verb GO TO BED has 1 sense:

1. prepare for sleep

  Familiarity information: GO TO BED used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GO TO BED (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prepare for sleep

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

bed; crawl in; go to bed; go to sleep; hit the hay; hit the sack; kip down; retire; sack out; turn in

Context example:

He goes to bed at the crack of dawn

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go to bed"):

bed down; bunk down (go to bed)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

get up (get up and out of bed)

 Context examples 

Now that my work is done I, too, shall go to bed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

You are not keeping me up. I generally go to bed late.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

About eleven I was glad to go to bed.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When do the servants go to bed?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We shall never know any peace till that child learns to go to bed properly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My master advised me to go to bed.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You must go to bed early, my dear—and I recommend a little gruel to you before you go.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Then I think I shall go to bed, for it is past twelve o'clock; but you may call me if you want anything in the night.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"She has been indisposed all day, and we have persuaded her to go to bed."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Whereupon he began again to think that my brain was disturbed, of which he gave me a hint, and advised me to go to bed in a cabin he had provided.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)