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bedtime
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Bedtime
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bed·time
/
ˈbɛdˌtaɪm
/
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[
bed
-tahym
]
Show IPA
noun
1.
the
time
at
which
a person usually goes to
bed
:
It's past my bedtime.
2.
the
time
at which a person goes to
bed
on a particular night:
I have to get up early tomorrow so bedtime tonight
will
be 9 o'clock.
Origin:
1200–50;
Middle English;
see
bed
,
time
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
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World English Dictionary
bedtime
(ˈbɛdˌtaɪm)
—
n
a. the time when one usually goes to bed
b. (
as modifier
):
a bedtime story
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
bedtime
mid-13c., from
bed
+
time
.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
Michal loves his brother's scary
bedtime
tales, an affection he conveys with
infectious ingenuousness.
It's a great way to sneak an explanation of light and optics into a
bedtime
routine.
One part of the site contains sea-kitten
bedtime
stories.
Continue reading about favorite
bedtime
stories, poems and routines.
He seemed to be having far too good a time to think of settling down to warmed slippers and
bedtime
cocoa.
We did not have the benefit of having stories read to us at
bedtime
, and unfortunately went to bed hungry far too often.
Exercising close to
bedtime
, however, may increase alertness.
He picks his own
bedtime
reading, and he chooses these books about every other day.
There is no fixed
bedtime
, and no one tells anyone else to go to sleep.
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