BEDSIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bedside mean? 

• BEDSIDE (noun)
  The noun BEDSIDE has 1 sense:

1. space by the side of a bed (especially the bed of a sick or dying person)

  Familiarity information: BEDSIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEDSIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Space by the side of a bed (especially the bed of a sick or dying person)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

the doctor stood at her bedside

Hypernyms ("bedside" is a kind of...):

side (a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location)

 Context examples 

A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at the bedside of the sufferer.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The day was just breaking when I woke to find the long, thin form of Holmes by my bedside.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dennin answered, "'Tis very simple. I was thinkin'—" But she hushed him abruptly, asked him to wait, and hurried to Hans's bedside.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He came over to my bedside and said:—You need not trouble about the knives; we shall not do it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At half-past seven next morning, in the first glimmer of daylight, I found him standing by my bedside in his dressing-gown.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center fosters bench-to-bedside research, with programs ranging from basic science research to clinical trials.

(Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

Next morning I was awakened by finding him at my bedside.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could imagine that our visitor was standing by the bedside and looking down at the sufferer.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It turns me cold to think of this creature stealing like a thief to Harry’s bedside; poor Harry, what a wakening!

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This "bench-to-bedside" approach facilitates interaction and collaboration among clinicians and researchers.

(NIH Clinical Center, NCI Thesaurus)