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# mattress

«mattress» in Mova's school dictionary: **the large, thick, soft pad that you lie on in a bed** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a mattress, mattresses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A mattress is the large, thick, soft pad that you lie on in a bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mattress/#m1)

2) An air mattress is a plastic one you fill with air, for camping or for floating on water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mattress/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life you sleep on a mattress; in science lessons a mattress is an example of a soft material and of springs. In safety lessons, mattresses must not be put near heaters, and babies should sleep on a firm mattress. Phrases: "a new mattress", "spring mattress", "air mattress", "under the mattress".

### examples

- My mattress is so soft I sink into it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mattress/#x1)
- We blew up an air mattress for my cousin to sleep on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mattress/#x2)
- The old mattress was too lumpy, so we bought a new one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mattress/#x3)
- My little brother jumped on the mattress until Mum told him to stop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mattress/#x4)
- In the story, the princess could feel a pea under twenty mattresses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mattress/#x5)
- Inside the mattress there are hundreds of metal springs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mattress/#x6)
- People used to hide money under the mattress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mattress/#x7)
- Then she put twenty mattresses on top of the pea, and twenty eider-down quilts on the top of the mattresses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mattress/#x8)

### note

Countable: a mattress, two mattresses (add -es). Spelled with double t and double s. The mattress is the soft part; the bed is the whole thing with its frame. "Mattress" also appears in fixed jokes like "hiding money under the mattress", which means keeping savings at home instead of a bank.

### Trees and pragmatics

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