bedside

American  

[bed-sahyd] / ˈbɛdˌsaɪd /

noun

• bedsides
  plural

1. the side of a bed, especially as the place of one attending the sick.

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adjective

1. at or for a bedside.

   a bedside table.

bedside British  

/ ˈbɛdˌsaɪd /

noun

1. 1. the space by the side of a bed, esp of a sick person

   2. ( as modifier )

      a bedside lamp

      a doctor's bedside manner

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• bedsides
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of bedside

1325–75; Middle English; originally bed + 's ¹ + side ¹

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

bedside bedsides

After medical staff left the room, Stephanie said she had to leave Flora's bedside for 45 minutes to continue the conversation about her care.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

According to Stephanie, disagreements between medical teams over how best to manage Flora's symptoms erupted into a heated discussion at her daughter's bedside.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

On Saturday he was pictured with UAE Deputy Prime Minister Hamdan bin Mohammed during a visit by the leader to his hospital bedside.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

At Stanford Medicine’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, bedside monitors in the pediatric intensive-care and acute cardiac-care units were generating large numbers of alarms considered “nonactionable”—caused by brief, self-correcting or clinically unimportant changes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

At midnight, Dr. Cajazeira came to Roosevelt’s bedside.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

She’d log on to her computer and call into meetings from emergency rooms and hospital bedsides.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

He inspected damage and talked to people at their bedsides with his wife.

From Reuters ● Feb. 10, 2023

But globally, I had spent a fair amount of time at people’s bedsides who were at the end.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2022

She said the boys’ parents are at their bedsides.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2021

At night they “always had pitchers of ice water and fresh fruit with fruit knives” placed at their bedsides.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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