built in bed

1. 1.

   a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers

   Synonymsberthbunk

   Broaderbed

   Narrowerlower berthupper berth

Questions about built in bed

What does built in bed mean?

built in bed means "a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers".

What is another word for built in bed?

Close synonyms include berth, bunk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is built in bed a common word?

built in bed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.