noun
- the time at which a person usually goes to bed: It’s past my bedtime.
- the time at which a person goes to bed on a particular night: I have to get up early tomorrow so bedtime tonight will be 9 o’clock.
noun
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- the time when one usually goes to bed
- (as modifier)a bedtime story
also bed-time, early 13c., from bed (n.) + time (n.). Bed-time story attested from 1867.