Betime vs Bedtime - What's the difference?
betime | bedtime |
To occur; betide.
betimes
* {{quote-book, year=1868, author=Mary Frances Cusack, title=An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Send succours (lords), and stop the rage betime , Before the wound do grow uncurable; For being green, there is great hope of help." }}
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Michael Drayton, title=Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Her feature all as fresh aboue, As is the grasse that grows by Doue, as lyth as lasse of Kent: Her skin as soft as Lemster wooll, As white as snow on peakish hull, or Swanne that swims in Trent. 30 This mayden in a morne betime , Went forth when May was in her prime, to get sweet Cetywall, The hony-suckle, the Harlocke, The Lilly and the Lady-smocke, to decke her summer hall. }}
The time or hour at which one typically retires to bed in order to sleep.
* 2004 , Vartan Gregorian, The Road to Home: My Life and Times (page 55)
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, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
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As a verb betime
is to occur; betide.As an adverb betime
is betimes.As a noun bedtime is
the time or hour at which one typically retires to bed in order to sleep.betime
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(betim)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Adverb
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*bedtime
English
Noun
(en noun)- I read every evening, sometimes late into the night, with the help of kerosene lamps, often secretly, past my bedtime .
Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes' may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set ' bedtime , researchers found.}}