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Bedtime

//ˈbɛdtaɪm// noun

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Noun

1
The time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep. countable, uncountable
"I read every evening, sometimes late into the night, with the help of kerosene lamps, often secretly, past my bedtime."
2
the time you go to bed wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English bedtyme, bed-tyme, bedetyme, bedde tyme, equivalent to bed + time. Compare earlier Old English bedtīd (“bedtime”). Compare also West Frisian bêdtiid (“bedtime”), Dutch bedtijd (“bedtime”), Saterland Frisian Bädegungenstied (“bedtime”, literally “bed-goings-time”), German Low German Beddgahnstied, Bettgahnstiet (“bedtime”, literally “bed-goings-time”).

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