daybed
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈdeɪˌbɛd/
:
diván
- I took one last look around, found Charly under the daybed where Ellie used to sleep.
- sleep on the daybed
- lying on the daybed
- sitting on a daybed
Examples
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Across the hall was a family room with a daybed in it, one of those kinds on wheels which you can rent.
Fiction book (1996) -
But when I woke up, he was asleep on the little daybed in my sitting room across the hall.
Fiction book (1998) -
You can sleep on the daybed in my spare room," she added.
Fiction book (1998) -
One day she found him asleep on the daybed in his study.
Fiction book (1996) -
Kathryn sat up in the daybed, determined to begin the cleaning now.
Fiction book (1998) -
The mother, sitting on a daybed, was examining a selection of magazines fanned out across a Danish Modern coffee table.
Fiction book (1991) -
Eight months later, I'm just starting to unload my suitcases on the daybed in my East Dallas efficiency when I get a call from my father.
Fiction book (1994) -
Barefoot, I tiptoed down the hall to Delphine's sewing room and lay down on the narrow daybed.
Fiction book (1990) -
The elder Taylors were perched on the edge of one of Sylvia's decorating epiphanies, a leather and chrome daybed that sat, plunk, right in the middle of the Whites' living room.
Fiction book (1996) -
A five-year-old kid is asleep on a daybed in a corner of the room.
Synonyms
5
2.6
A large seat with soft cushions for two or more people that opens into a bed
4
4.1
A sofa that opens or folds to make a bed
1
3.5
A sofa that you can use for sitting by day and sleeping at night
A low couch without arms that you can sleep on at night
How Comfortable
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Morphology
Etymology
Daybed comes from the two simple words day and bed. It was originally a 'bed for the day', meaning a piece of furniture like a sofa for resting in the daytime that can also be used for sleeping at night.