Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bedward

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bed-ward
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

name

The ship of characters Bella Swan and Edward Cullen from the Twilight series.

Slang

Example Sentences

"My problems with the series go further than Bedward's "relationship.""
"When Bedward's desire to touch each other becomes unbearable, the overwhelming sexual tension is handily dispersed into a far less exciting bodily necessity: hunger."
"Take, for example, Bedward: Edward Cullen and Bella Swan from Stephanie Meyer's Twilight; […]"

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *badją Proto-West Germanic *badi Old English bedd Middle English bed English bed Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English bedward From bed + -ward.

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

more bedward (comparative) most bedward (superlative) bedwards (alternative)

Derived Forms

Bedwardism Bedwardite

Phrases

Team Edward

Frequently Paired Words

Team Edward

Questions

What does bedward mean?: Toward bed.
Where does bedward come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *badją Proto-West Germanic *badi Old English bedd Middle English bed English bed Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English bedward From bed + -ward.

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