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Cot

/kɒt/

A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.

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📖 Definitions of "Cot"

noun

1
A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
2
A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
3
A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.

🔄 Synonyms of "Cot"

3 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
cribnoun	(US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
camp bednoun	(chiefly UK) A lightweight portable bed used by the military, campers, etc.
fingerstallnoun	A protective cover for the finger; a fingercot.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Cot"

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Word	Definition
cribnoun	(US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
camp bednoun	(chiefly UK) A lightweight portable bed used by the military, campers, etc.
fingerstallnoun	A protective cover for the finger; a fingercot.
charpoynoun	(South Asia) A traditional bedstead used in South Asia, consisting of a wooden frame bordering a set of knotted ropes.
cradlenoun	A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
bunknoun	One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
bednoun	(countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
bedroomnoun	A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.
cottonnoun	(uncountable) A soft, fibrous, usually white substance consisting of fine hairs, especially the substance around the seeds of a plant of genus Gossypium.
cotenoun	A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
berthnoun	(by extension) A place on a vessel to sleep, especially a bed on the side of a cabin.
streambednoun	A channel through which a stream flows or used to flow.
litnoun	(UK dialectal) Colour; blee; dye; stain.
birthplacenoun	The location where a person was born.
sleepernoun	Someone who sleeps.
readnoun	A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
tocnoun	Initialism of table of contents. [A list of titles of the parts of a book or document, organized in the order in which the parts appear.]
sidenoun	A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
dovenoun	(countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
koonoun	A surname from Cantonese.