Definition of Go to bed

1. Verb. Prepare for sleep. "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn"


Definition of Go to bed

1. Verb. To lie down to sleep, to put oneself in one's bed ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Go To Bed

go the way of
go the way of all flesh
go the way of the dinosaurs
go the way of the dodo
go the whole hog
go there
go through
go through hell
go through the mill
go through the motions
go through with
go to
go to Canossa
go to Halifax
go to Putney on a pig
go to bed
go to blazes
go to extraordinary lengths
go to great lengths
go to ground
go to hell
go to pieces
go to pot
go to seed
go to sleep
go to someone's head
go to the dogs

Literary usage of Go to bed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. 'Hail and Farewell!' by George Moore (1912)
"Now, the question to be settled was whether I should go to bed or wait for him to come in. To go to bed would be wiser, and speak to him in the morning. ..."

2. The Parliamentary Debatesby Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1821)
"At what time did yuu go to bed ï Nearly ten o'clock. Who went to bed in that room ... At what time did her royal highness go to bed ? At the same hour. ..."

3. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"I must go to bed early." Bulstrode went away now without anxiety as to what Baffles might say in his raving, which had taken on a muttering incoherence not ..."

4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1816)
"—Mr. Lyon came to our bouse, as nigh м I can guess, between nine and ten, (which is generally about the time we go to bed) sc-J asked mistress if she know'd ..."

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