bedfellow
Meaning of bedfellow
noun
- One with whom one shares a bed.
- An associate, often an otherwise improbable one.
1873 They say that "misfortune makes men acquainted with strange bedfellows". The old hereditary Whig Cabinet ministers must, no doubt, by this time have learned to feel themselves at home with strange neighbours at their elbows. — Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux, Chapter 40.
Information about bedfellow
- It is a name.
- The plural form of bedfellow is: bedfellows.
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Hyphenation of bedfellow
bed-fel-low
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- bedfellow is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
bedfellow synonyms
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Words that rhyme with bedfellow
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