bedside Hear it!

bedside Definition

bed·side (-sīd′)

noun

the side of a bed; space beside a bed a nurse at his bedside

adjective

  1. near a bed a bedside table
  2. as regards patients a doctor's bedside manner

bedside Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • leave: There may be certain times when your visitors are asked to leave the bedside and wait in the waiting room.

Adjective modifier

  • patient: Deliver TV to patient bedsides to improve the health care environment.
  • own: It must be hard seeing the character you honed at your own children's bedsides being changed by others, however subtly and however successfully.

Modifies a noun

  • cabinet: With single bed, bedside cabinet, chest of drawers.
  • locker: I lie without moving, desperately wanting to put out a hand into the night to feel for the flashlight on my bedside locker.
  • lamp: Two small chest of drawers, bedside lamps, built in cupboard.
  • table: The control box is placed on the bedside table, with the sensor pad being placed under the mattress.
  • vigil: Little Mo maintains a bedside vigil at the hospital.
  • drawer: I have now worked out how to trap it inside my bedside drawers to wear it at night.

Noun used with modifier

  • drawer: These two are taller and narrower than the 3 drawer bedside cabinet and the Pot Cupboard & drawer.
  • hospital: In fact there were times she spent the whole night at his hospital bedside urging him on.
  • pine: All our solid pine bedside cabinets come with turned beech hardwood handles for extra strength and durability.
  • patient: Here, nursing staff and clinicians work together where it matters at the patients bedside, to direct and manage patient care.
  • in-patient: The mean percentage of in-patient bedside ' fallers ' in 2002 was 14.9 % .

Possessives

  • patient: Benefits advice at the patient's bedside Job Center Plus now provide a new service at the Royal Free.
  • father: These serenely abstract images form a counterpoint to the haunting final photographs made at his father's bedside.
  • mother: By mother's bedside lay the last book I had bought her.
  • child: Don't feel you need to be by your child's bedside all the time.
  • husband: Because you came along I made it to my dying husband's bedside before he passed away.

Preposition: of

    Browse dictionary entries near bedside

    1. bedsheet ballot
    2. bedsheet
    3. bedroom
    4. bedroll
    5. bedrock
    6. bedridden
    7. bedrail
    8. bedraggled
    9. bedraggle
    10. bedpost
    1. bedsore
    2. bedspread
    3. bedspring
    4. bedstead
    5. bedstraw
    6. bedtime
    7. bedtime story
    8. bee
    9. bee balm
    10. bee eater