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BEDSTEAD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The framework of a bed

Synonyms:

bedframe; bedstead

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bedstead" is a kind of...):

article of furniture; furniture; piece of furniture (furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy)

Meronyms (parts of "bedstead"):

bedpost (any of 4 vertical supports at the corners of a bedstead)

bedspring ((usually in the plural) one of the springs holding up the mattress of a bed)

footboard (a vertical board or panel forming the foot of a bedstead)

headboard (a vertical board or panel forming the head of a bedstead)

Holonyms ("bedstead" is a part of...):

bed (a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep)

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 Context examples: 

I went up to my bedroom to change my wet clothes; and the vast extent of that old wainscoted apartment (which was over the archway leading to the Inn, I remember), and the sedate immensity of the four-post bedstead, and the indomitable gravity of the chests of drawers, all seemed to unite in sternly frowning on the fortunes of Traddles, or on any such daring youth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)