mattress
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
mattress (plural mattresses)
- A pad on which a person can recline and sleep, usually having an inner section of coiled springs covered with foam or other cushioning material then enclosed with cloth fabric.
- A form of retaining wall used to support foundations or an embankment
- French: matelas
- German: Matratze
- Italian: materasso
- Portuguese: colchão
- Russian: матра́с
- Spanish: colchón
mattress (mattresses, present participle mattressing; past and past participle mattressed)
- (transitive) To cover with a thick layer, like a mattress; to blanket.
- 1997, Andrew R. M. Patterson, A planet through a field of stars (page 123)
- A comfortable litter of pine needles had mattressed the ground and spreading branches had been a canopy overhead.
- 1997, Andrew R. M. Patterson, A planet through a field of stars (page 123)
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