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bedfellow
[ bed-fel-oh ]
noun
- Also called bedmate. a person who shares one's bed.
- an associate or collaborator, especially one who forms a temporary alliance for reasons of expediency:
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
bedfellow
/ ˈbɛdˌfɛləʊ /
noun
- a person with whom one shares a bed
- a temporary ally or associate
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bedfellow1
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Example Sentences
Wallace crept into bed beside his communicative bedfellow in silence.
He first made an attempt on the apprentice, his bedfellow; but he struggled so far as to effect his escape, and hid himself.
He implores mercy for his “desolate bedfellow,” for her children, and for his sons by his first wife.
My bedfellow and I slept on an oilcloth, covered with an overcoat, and tied our four feet up together in a flannel shirt.
Why do they hardly feel that they have prayed if company, or a bedfellow, on a journey, keeps them from using oral prayer?
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