teddy bear

1. 1.

   plaything consisting of a child's toy bear (usually plush and stuffed with soft materials)

   Synonymsteddy

   Broaderplaything

Questions about teddy bear

What does teddy bear mean?

teddy bear means "plaything consisting of a child's toy bear (usually plush and stuffed with soft materials)".

What is another word for teddy bear?

Close synonyms include teddy. 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 teddy bear a common word?

teddy bear 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.