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BEDSIDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Space by the side of a bed (especially the bed of a sick or dying person)
Example:
the doctor stood at her bedside
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("bedside" is a kind of...):
side (a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location)
Context examples:
On a chair by the bedside were all my own things, clean and dry.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Jo lay long awake that night, and was just dropping off when the sound of a stifled sob made her fly to Beth's bedside, with the anxious inquiry, "What is it, dear?"
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I was roused by the silent presence of my aunt at my bedside.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
For two months Alleyne had wavered betwixt death and life, with a broken rib and a shattered head; yet youth and strength and a cleanly life were all upon his side, and he awoke from his long delirium to find that the war was over, that the Spaniards and their allies had been crushed at Navaretta, and that the prince had himself heard the tale of his ride for succor and had come in person to his bedside to touch his shoulder with his sword and to insure that so brave and true a man should die, if he could not live, within the order of chivalry.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Helps speed scientific discovery and facilitates translational research by building many types of tools and resources that enable information to be shared along the continuum from the scientific bench to the clinical bedside and back.
(NCI Center for Bioinformatics, NCI Thesaurus)
I revolved in my mind the events which I had until now sought to forget: the whole train of my progress toward the creation; the appearance of the works of my own hands at my bedside; its departure.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
When her maid had prepared her for the night I came in, having in the meantime had supper, and took a seat by the bedside.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Just at my bedside, the figure stopped: the fiery eyes glared upon me—she thrust up her candle close to my face, and extinguished it under my eyes.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Jo started up, revived the blaze, and crept to the bedside, hoping Beth slept.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It may be that he misses in his mistress, something that enlivened him and made him younger; but he mopes, and his sight is weak, and his limbs are feeble, and my aunt is sorry that he objects to her no more, but creeps near her as he lies on Dora's bed—she sitting at the bedside—and mildly licks her hand.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
