go to bed

1. 1.

   prepare for sleep

   “I usually turn in at midnight”

   “He goes to bed at the crack of dawn”

   Synonymsturn inbedcrawl inkip downhit the hayhit the sacksack outgo to sleepretire

   Antonymsget up

   Narrowerbed down

Questions about go to bed

What does go to bed mean?

go to bed means "prepare for sleep".

What is another word for go to bed?

Close synonyms include turn in, bed, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay. 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.

What is the opposite of go to bed?

The recorded antonyms are get up.

Is go to bed a common word?

go to bed is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.