bedtime story

American  

noun

1. a story told to a child at bedtime.

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Etymology

Origin of bedtime story

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

"If that happens then CBeebies will upgrade him to a full Bedtime Story and he will be in the bedroom in amongst the greats," he said.

From BBC

Princess Catherine was the first royal to tell a bedtime story on the channel, reading The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark to mark Children's Mental Health Week in 2022.

From BBC

The CBeebies Bedtime Story is broadcast just before 19:00, when the channel aimed at very young children stops broadcasting for the day.

From BBC

She wrote her letters in the evening, after she had wrestled the horrible Babushkawoos into their nightclothes and read them a bedtime story.

From Literature

However, their bellies were full of milk and biscuits, and they had made a marvelous pillow fort on the floor to snuggle in, so they listened the way they might have listened to any bedtime story: wriggling and poking one another and looking as if they were not listening at all.

From Literature