MATTRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mattress mean? 

• MATTRESS (noun)
  The noun MATTRESS has 1 sense:

1. a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed

  Familiarity information: MATTRESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATTRESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("mattress" is a kind of...):

pad (a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mattress"):

air mattress (a mattress that can be stored flat and inflated for use)

feather bed; featherbed (a mattress stuffed with feathers)

futon (mattress consisting of a pad of cotton batting that is used for sleeping on the floor or on a raised frame)

paillasse; palliasse (mattress consisting of a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust)

pallet (a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed)

spring mattress (a mattress containing springs in a rigid frame)

tick (a light mattress)

Holonyms ("mattress" is a part of...):

bed (a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep)

 Context examples 

Dr. Seward was resting on the mattress, and, seeing me, he sprang to his feet.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This was to be my first night on the mattress, and I knew I should sleep the sweeter because she had made it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She asked the mattress company for a later date.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We put old Redruth in the gallery between the cabin and the forecastle, with three or four loaded muskets and a mattress for protection.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Come! It's in the lining of the mattress, Charley.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Other specific baby products were also analysed, such as personal care products, certain fabrics, nappy-changing mats, and mattress protectors.

(Babies in neonatal intensive care units are exposed to harmful chemical substances found in plastic, University of Granada)

Check the mattress and headboard for signs of bedbugs.

(Bedbugs, Environmental Protection Agency)

Out of these deep surrounding shades rose high, and glared white, the piled- up mattresses and pillows of the bed, spread with a snowy Marseilles counterpane.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was lined with hardtack; the mattress was stuffed with hardtack; every nook and cranny was filled with hardtack.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Just outside, stretched on a mattress, lay Mr. Morris, wide awake.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)