mattress
pronunciation
How to pronounce mattress in British English:
UK [ˈmætrəs]
How to pronounce mattress in American English:
US [ˈmætrəs]
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- Noun:
- a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed
Word Origin
- mattress
- mattress: [13] Etymologically, a mattress is something ‘thrown’ down on the floor to lie on. The word comes via Old French materas and Italian materasso from Arabic matrah ‘mat, cushion’, a derivative of the verb taraha ‘throw’.
- mattress (n.)
- late 13c., from Old French materas (12c., Modern French matelas), from Italian materasso and directly from Medieval Latin matracium, borrowed in Sicily from Arabic al-matrah "the cushion" (also source of Spanish almadraque "mattress," Provençal almatrac), literally "the thing thrown down," from taraha "he threw (down)."
Example
- 1. The product : beyond luxury sublime mattress
- 2. His grandfather started the e.s. kluft & company , a mattress business , in 1946 .
- 3. Roathy 's mattress is made from old tires .
- 4. Sears sometimes has a good mattress sale .
- 5. They sleep on a dirty mattress on the factory floor .