double bed

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   a bed wide enough to accommodate two sleepers

   Broaderbed

Questions about double bed

What does double bed mean?

double bed means "a bed wide enough to accommodate two sleepers".

Is double bed a common word?

double 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.