bedside

Noun

Meaning

The side of a bed.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

abed laid sleep bed bedroom sack bedding crib riverbed masthead bunk seabed daybed bedpost deathbed
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Hypernyms

side

Related terms

labside chairside webside

Phrases with the word

bedside lamp at the bedside bedside conversation

Examples

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis. Alfred P. Sloan

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. William S. Burroughs

I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since. Stephen Fry

It was his hope and ambition to cause many deaths. He was an arms salesman by choice, calm and even a little happy to see his products in such demand, capable of trying to clinch a sale at the bedside of a fresh corpse. John Brunner

But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that? Lara Flynn Boyle

I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important. Abraham Verghese

Close letter words and terms

bedsheet bedsheet ballot bedsheeting bedside cabinet bedside conversation bedside lamp