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# pillow

«pillow» in Mova's school dictionary: **a soft bag filled with feathers, foam or cotton that you…** — 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 (a pillow, pillows); verb (pillow — rare, to rest your head on)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pillow is a soft bag filled with feathers, foam or cotton that you rest your head on in bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillow/#m1)

2) A pillow can also be any soft thing used like that. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillow/#m2)

3) A pillow can also be put under another part of the body, such as the feet, to make it comfortable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillow/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and at sleepovers, children have pillow fights and change pillowcases when washing bedding. In health, babies sleep without pillows for safety. In stories, children hide things under the pillow, like a tooth for the tooth fairy. Phrases: pillow fight, pillowcase, under the pillow, fluff the pillow.

### examples

- I put my head on the pillow and fell asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillow/#x1)
- We had a pillow fight at the sleepover. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillow/#x2)
- Put your tooth under your pillow tonight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillow/#x3)
- Change the pillowcase every week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillow/#x4)
- This pillow is too flat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillow/#x5)
- My dog sleeps on a big pillow by the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillow/#x6)
- She hid her diary under her pillow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillow/#x7)
- Babies should sleep without pillows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillow/#x8)
- “Because that feather pillow on my feet bothers me.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pillow/#x9)

### note

Countable: a pillow, pillows. A cushion is for a chair or sofa; a pillow is for a bed. A pillowcase is the cloth cover. Spelled with double l.

### In the corpora

- [Half a pair of socks and a pillow-case short this week!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/55-willows-ch8-part4-the-chase-and-the-tunnel/24/)
- [Never hit; walk away, squeeze a pillow, stamp your feet outside or tell an adult instead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/89-handling-anger/6/)
- [Charge phones and tablets on a hard surface, never under a pillow, because chargers get hot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/14/)
- [Phones and tablets charging under pillows or blankets can overheat and start a fire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners/17/)
- [Anger needs a safe outlet, like running hard, a pillow or talking.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/372-jake-always-in-bruises/27/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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