queen-size
- adjective
- /ˈkwinˌsaɪz/
- She walked over to one of the queen-size beds and lay down.
- queen-size bed
- queen-size mattress
- queen-size berth
We're both children and we were laying in a queen size bed at his father's house and going to sleep.
- We're both children and we were laying in a queen size bed at his father's house and going to sleep.
- We we, we moved her out of the crib and now she sleeps on a queen size mattress on the floor because she was falling out and she didn't like the rails.
Examples
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The good news is that I've got a very comfortable queen-size mattress of my own.
Blog text (3) -
The queen-size bed takes up a good deal of the available space.
Fiction book (1990) -
We got a full queen-size bed here, believe it or not.
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A queen-size bed is perfect.
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We were lying side by side in a queen-size bed.
Fiction book (1991) -
We pushed the queen-size bed up to the window overlooking the creek that fed into the sound.
Fiction book (1992) -
I turned on the air conditioner under the window and lay on the queen-size bed until the stuffy room grew cold.
Fiction book (1992) -
In her room, she sat down on one of the queen-size beds and dialed her parents' condo.
Fiction book (2001) -
One day while browsing the web, my 2-year-old son sat directly next to me on my queen-size bed playing with his stuffed animals.
Blog text (27) -
The hotel room featured a spacious queen-size bed that offered plenty of comfort for two guests.
Synonyms
A bed or mattress larger than a double and smaller than a king
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Queen-size uses queen 'female ruler' as a simple image, so it names a bed that is smaller than a king-size but larger than a full bed. So a queen-size mattress is the common middle-large bed between a 'full' and a king-size, which makes the size easy to remember.