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Definition: Bedfellow |
BedfellowNoun1. A temporary associate; "politics makes strange bedfellows". 2. A person with whom you share a bed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bedfellow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Friend | Comrade, mate, companion, familiar, confrere, comrade, camarade, confidante, intimate; old crony, crony; chum; pal; buddy, bosom buddy; playfellow, playmate, childhood friend; bedfellow, bedmate; chamber fellow. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bedfellow |
| English words defined with "bedfellow": Bedfere Bedphere. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bedfellow": Existence. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream, Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem: From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!" |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Bedfellow" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bedfellow" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bedfellow | 198 |
bedfellow model | 11 |
bedfellow chat | 7 |
strange bedfellow | 5 |
bedfellow gay | 5 |
bedfellow chat joe | 4 |
bedfellow make politics strange | 4 |
bedfellow password | 3 |
bedfellow rm virtualservice | 2 |
bedfellow rm | 2 |
bedfellow etla.virtualservice.com | 2 |
bedfellow chat from joe | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bedfellow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shok shtrati, shok (brother, buddy, buddy buddy, chap, companion, companion in arms, Comrade, fellow, friend, guy, mate, pal, pard, partner, peer). (various references) | |
Arabic | الضجيع من يقاسمك الفراش, الرفيق (friend). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | близък другар, другар по легло. (various references) | |
Czech | spojenec (ally). (various references) | |
Farsi | هم خواب , هم بستر. (various references) | |
French | collègue, associé. (various references) | |
German | Schlafkamerad. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שותף למט" (bedfriend). (various references) | |
Hungarian | partner (partner), hálótárs (sleeping partner), ágytárs. (various references) | |
Indonesian | teman (buddy, comrade, counterpart, mate, pal). (various references) | |
Italian | compagno di letto. (various references) | |
Manx | colhiabbagh (concubine, mistress). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | edfellowbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | companheiro de cama. (various references) | |
Russian | спящий на одной постели, муж (helpmate, helpmeet, husband, man). (various references) | |
Scottish | caomhach. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sobni drug (roommate), ortak (associate, buddy buddy, cohort, consort, fellow, mac, partner, yokefellow, yokemate). (various references) | |
Spanish | compañero de cama. (various references) | |
Swedish | tillfällig bekant. (various references) | |
Turkish | yatak arkadaşı, karı (broad, Dame, dutch, Jane, old lady, old woman, spouse, the old woman, wife, woman), dost (ally, associate, bean, brother, Comrade, connection, connexion, crony, fellow, forthcoming, friend, lover, pal, pard), arkadaş (associate, brother, bud, buddy, chap, chum, companion, compeer, Comrade, consociate, familiar, feller, fellow, friend, helpmate, helpmeet, mate, pal, sidekick). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | компаньон, наложниця (concubine, sultana). (various references) | |
Welsh | cywely. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bedfellow": bedfellows. (additional references) | |
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"Bedfellow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bendelow, Pedelow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bedfellow" (pronounced be"dfe'lō) |
| 3 | -e' l ō | marshmallow. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-f-l-l-o-w" | |
-1 letter: bellowed, bowelled, fellowed. | |
-2 letters: boweled, elbowed. | |
-3 letters: bedell, befell, belled, bellow, blowed, bolled, bowled, felled, felloe, fellow, flowed, fowled, webfed, welled, wolfed. | |
-4 letters: bedel, bedew, belle, below, bleed, bowed, bowel, dowel, dweeb, dwell, elbow, lobed, lowed, wedel. | |
-5 letters: beef, bell, bled, blew, blow, bode, bold, bole, boll, bowl, dele, delf, dell, dole, doll, feed, feel. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-f-l-l-o-w" | |
+1 letter: bedfellows. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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