bedtime

Definition

  • noun: the usual time when someone goes to bed
  • noun: a time for going to bed

Examples

  • Will you read the children a 'bedtime story'? [=a story that is read or told to children when they go to bed]

  • The children are still up? It's way past their 'bedtimes'.

  • It's almost 'bedtime'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) but it's good for you. See? Good evening. You're with the Illuminati. Beg your pardon? There's no such thing. It's just a bedtime story. - Illuminati. - The People of the Light. Have you brought my triangle? No. Of course, you haven't. You've hidden it somewhere. (..)
    2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
  • (..) It will unlock the hiding place of two pieces of a sacred icon. This is the magical triangle I told you about when you were a girl - The Triangle Of Light. But it is no bedtime story. The triangle was forged from metal found in the crater of a meteor that had fallen to earth at the exact moment (..)
    2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider