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# bedtime

«bedtime» in Mova's school dictionary: **the time when you usually go to bed** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (bedtime, bedtimes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Bedtime is the time when you usually go to bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedtime/#m1)

2) Bedtime can also describe things done just before sleeping, like a bedtime story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedtime/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and health lessons, children aged 9–10 need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep, so a regular bedtime helps; a bedtime routine might be a bath, brushing teeth, pyjamas and a story. Screens before bedtime make it harder to fall asleep. In maths, bedtime problems ask how long someone sleeps from bedtime to waking up. Phrases: past your bedtime, bedtime story, bedtime routine, at bedtime.

### examples

- My bedtime is half past eight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedtime/#x1)
- Dad reads me a bedtime story every night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedtime/#x2)
- It's way past your bedtime! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedtime/#x3)
- Brush your teeth before bedtime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedtime/#x4)
- No screens an hour before bedtime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedtime/#x5)
- On weekends my bedtime is later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedtime/#x6)
- If bedtime is 9 pm and I wake at 7 am, I sleep 10 hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedtime/#x7)
- Her bedtime routine is bath, book, bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedtime/#x8)
- In the old days at home the Neverland had always begun to look a little dark and threatening by bedtime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedtime/#x9)

### note

One word: bedtime. In time problems, counting from bedtime to waking means crossing midnight: from 8:30 pm to 7:00 am is 10 hours 30 minutes.

### In the corpora

- [At bedtime Mum explains he had an awful week at work, and Dad comes up and says, "Sorry, mate.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/4/)
- [Try Mia's family game: from breakfast to bedtime, count every time a machine guessed something for you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/1/)
- [At night there is less spit in the mouth to protect the teeth, so the bedtime brush is the most important.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/7/)
- [Bright screens keep your brain awake, which is why a book or calm sounds work better at bedtime.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/103-screens-fairness-and-differences/1/)
- [At a sleepover you bring your own things, follow bedtime rules and thank the family in the morning.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bedtime» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedtime/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.