bedward

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adverb

Toward bed.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

bedward1

adverbbedward (comparative more bedward, superlative most bedward)

comparative more bedward · superlative most bedward · alternative bedwards

  1. Toward bed.

Bedward2

proper noun
  1. slanglifestyleThe ship of characters Bella Swan and Edward Cullen from the Twilight series.

    My problems with the series go further than Bedward's "relationship."

    2010, Gabrielle Abutom, "'Twilight' is a sick, twisted series", Daily Titan (California State University, Fullerton), 11 October 2010, page 4
    2 more examples

    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.

    2013 February 12, Poppy Bullard, “In Defence of Twilight, sort of”, in Nouse, University of York, page M5

    Take, for example, Bedward: Edward Cullen and Bella Swan from Stephanie Meyer's Twilight; […]

    2016, Taylor Scheibe, "Plot Twist", Echo (Columbia College Chicago), May 2016, page 35

Origin

bedward · adverb

  1. Proto-Germanic*badją
  2. Proto-West Germanic*badi
  3. Old Englishbedd
  4. Middle Englishbed
  5. Englishbed
  6. Proto-Indo-European*wert-
  7. Proto-Germanic*wardaz
  8. Englishbedward

From bed + -ward.

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Bedward · proper noun

Blend of Bella + Edward.

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MLA

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Chicago

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