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Definition of Go to bed
1. Verb. Prepare for sleep. "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn"
Specialized synonyms: Bed Down, Bunk Down
Antonyms: Get Up, Turn Out
Definition of Go to bed
1. Verb. To lie down to sleep, to put oneself in one's bed ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Go To Bed
Literary usage of Go to bed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 'Hail and Farewell!' by George Moore (1912)
"Now, the question to be settled was whether I should go to bed or wait for him
to come in. To go to bed would be wiser, and speak to him in the morning. ..."
2. The Parliamentary Debatesby Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1821)
"At what time did yuu go to bed ï Nearly ten o'clock. Who went to bed in that room
... At what time did her royal highness go to bed ? At the same hour. ..."
3. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"I must go to bed early." Bulstrode went away now without anxiety as to what
Baffles might say in his raving, which had taken on a muttering incoherence not ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1816)
"—Mr. Lyon came to our bouse, as nigh м I can guess, between nine and ten, (which
is generally about the time we go to bed) sc-J asked mistress if she know'd ..."
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