Noun

(en noun)

A person with whom one shares a bed.

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, year=2000 , author=Ralph A. Pascualy, Sally Warren Soest , title= Snoring and Sleep Apnea: Sleep Well, Feel Better , chapter= citation , isbn= , page=161 , passage=These [periodic leg movements] may awaken the sleeper, but often they do nor and are more disruptive to the bedmate'. If you or your ' bedmate experience either of these disorders, talk with a sleep specialist about possible treatment}}

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, year=2005 , author=John Durand , title= The Odyssey of Mary B: A True Tale , chapter= citation , isbn= , page=227 , passage=She wondered where his thoughts were and whether she was anything more to him than a bedmate and housekeeper. She worried whether she'd done something to be the cause of his gloom...}}

Noun

(en noun)

One with whom one shares a bed.

* 1599 Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew , .

''Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,

''Whither away, or where is thy abode?

''Happy the parents of so fair a child;

''Happier the man whom favourable stars

Allot thee for his lovely bed-fellow .

An associate, often an otherwise improbable one.

* 1873' ''They say that "misfortune makes men acquainted with strange '''bedfellows ". The old hereditary Whig Cabinet ministers must, no doubt, by this time have learned to feel themselves at home with strange neighbours at their elbows.'' — Anthony Trollope, ''Phineas Redux , Chapter 40.

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, year=2011 , date=February 12 , author=Les Roopanarine , title=Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Statistics and truth can be uneasy bedfellows when it comes to football, but one fact could not be ignored: neither side has a player with more than seven goals to his name.}}