bedtime story


noun
  1. a story told to a child at bedtime.

Origin of bedtime story

1
First recorded in 1885–90

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How to use bedtime story in a sentence

  • David and Goliath became set as a bedtime story and lasted through the next six months almost without change.

    The Boy Grew Older | Heywood Broun
  • In addition to the bedtime story, Peter found it necessary to feign great weariness in order to suggest a similar feeling in Pat.

    The Boy Grew Older | Heywood Broun
  • Then always a few pages of the diary kept by the late Herr Wilner were read as a bedtime story.

    The Dark Star | Robert W. Chambers
  • Jessie and Henrietta were upstairs in Jessies room listening to the bedtime story.

  • They almost drowned out the first of the bedtime story with their excited voices.