bedfellow

[US]/'bedfeləʊ/
[UK]/'bɛdfɛlo/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.someone who shares a bed with another person; a person who sleeps in the same bed;a close partner, colleague, or ally
Word Forms
Pluralbedfellows
Third Person Singularbedfellows

Phrases & Collocations

unusual bedfellow

political bedfellow

unlikely bedfellow

Example Sentences

Art and rugby may seem strange bedfellows, but the local rugby club donated £2000 to help fund an art exhibition.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Money and art are unlikely bedfellows.

Science and religion are often seen as unlikely bedfellows.

Technology and nature can be strange bedfellows.

Tradition and innovation can be uneasy bedfellows.

The two companies make unlikely bedfellows in the business world.

Art and commerce make strange bedfellows in this exhibition.

Fashion and sustainability are becoming unlikely bedfellows in the industry.

The two musicians are unexpected bedfellows in this collaboration.

In this project, tradition and modernity are interesting bedfellows.

Real-world Examples

The pregnancy disability case has produced some strange bedfellows.

Source: Listen to this 3 Advanced English Listening

Don't be afraid to bring together odd bedfellows.

Source: TED Talks (Audio Version) March 2015 Collection

Wilt thou take the leper for thy bedfellow, and set the beggar at thy board?

Source: Selected Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde

Art and tech are natural bedfellows—" analogous forms of creative problem-solving" , observes Tina Vaz, head of Meta's arts programme.

Source: The Economist Culture

And Melanie, bursting into tears of self-condemnation, fled the room, leaving Scarlett to a tearless bed, with wounded pride, disillusionment and jealousy for bedfellows.

Source: Gone with the Wind

In other important ways, though, the party that used to treat corporate America as a bedfellow has started to disown it.

Source: Economist Business

I guessed that he would have a passionate bedfellow that night, but would never know to what prickings of conscience he owed her ardor.

Source: Blade (Part Two)

Neither Ashley nor I cared much for each other as bedfellows but — Ashley never believed in the Klan because he's against violence of any sort.

Source: Gone with the Wind

" Stannis Baratheon is too bloody righteous to buy men. Nor would he make a comfortable lord for the likes of Petyr. This war has made for some queer bedfellows, I agree, but those two? No" .

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Clash of Kings (Bilingual Edition)

That is the thing about Section 230: it's kind of built this, like, king-sized  mattress of strange bedfellows who are all teaming up and saying, " We want it gone." MATTHEW HERRICK: It is literally this, like, ominous, looming monster!

Source: Radio Laboratory

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