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BEDTIME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The time you go to bed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("bedtime" is a kind of...):
hour; time of day (clock time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bedtime"):
lights-out (a prescribed bedtime)
Context examples:
All day long she dared not go out of doors, and when bedtime had come, the witch’s daughter got into bed first, so as to lie at the far side, but when she was asleep, the other pushed her gently to the front, and took for herself the place at the back, close by the wall.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The cards were brought, and Fanny played at cribbage with her aunt till bedtime; and as Sir Thomas was reading to himself, no sounds were heard in the room for the next two hours beyond the reckonings of the game—“And that makes thirty-one; four in hand and eight in crib.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Individuals with greater variations in their bedtimes and in the hours they slept had a higher prevalence of metabolic problems, and these associations persisted after adjusting for average sleep duration.
(Study links irregular sleep patterns to metabolic disorders, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Before bedtime, I was fetched by the man with the wooden leg to appear before him.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
To put Adele to bed: it is past her bedtime.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering found that bathing 1-2 hours before bedtime in water of about 104-109 degrees Fahrenheit can significantly improve your sleep.
(Bathing 90 minutes before bedtime can improve sleep quality, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The prospective results showed that the variations in sleep duration and bedtimes preceded the development of metabolic dysfunction.
(Study links irregular sleep patterns to metabolic disorders, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Glancing up presently through her stray curls, and seeing that we were all looking at her still (I am sure I, for one, could have looked at her for hours), she ran away, and kept away till it was nearly bedtime.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I did not like this iteration of one idea—this strange recurrence of one image, and I grew nervous as bedtime approached and the hour of the vision drew near.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Therefore, if baths are taken at the right biological time—1-2 hours before bedtime—they will aid the natural circadian process and increase one's chances of not only falling asleep quickly but also of experiencing better quality sleep.
(Bathing 90 minutes before bedtime can improve sleep quality, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
