Synonyms:
bedside
Meaning: space by the side of a bed (especially the bed of a sick or dying person); "the doctor stood at her bedside"
Usage examples
The servant who woke him brought a newspaper to the bedside.
So saying he took up a rifle which he had laid at his bedside.
"I am afraid you are very ill," he said, returning to the bedside.
The doctor neglects research and cultivates instead a bedside manner.
Then he went, all dressed for a journey, to the bedside of Tubby, and found him smoking his first pipe.
What solace do they not bring to the bedside of the sick, what a light of bliss to the darkness of weary spirits?
Looking absently round the room, she noticed the packet of her father's letters placed on the table by her bedside.
At the end of that second week, Wilson, the electrician, was one evening sitting by Peter's bedside when I entered.
MY DEAREST GEORGE,--I am going away for about a week, to visit the bedside of an old friend, who is very ill, and may not live.
It happened one day that Vincent was sent to the bedside of a dying peasant who had always borne a good character and was considered an excellent Christian.