Definitions for hotbed

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IPA: /ˈhɒtˌbɛd/

Hotbed is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in hotbed (bdehot).

Definitions for hotbed

noun

1. a bottomless, boxlike, usually glass-covered structure and the bed of earth it covers, heated typically by fermenting manure or electrical cables, for growing plants out of season.
2. a place or environment favoring rapid growth or spread, especially of something disliked or unwanted:
3. Slang. a bed shared by two or more persons in shifts, each sleeping in it for or at a designated time and then vacating it for the next occupant.

verb (used without object)

1. Slang. to share a bed in shifts, so that it is always occupied.

Origin of hotbed

First recorded in 1620-30; hot + bed

Examples for hotbed

Sects were springing up all over England as weeds in a hotbed.

If there is no greenhouse, a hotbed is an important help in the garden.

In the early 1960s Cambridge University was a hotbed of cultural and social insurrection.

Industry—and the engineer is the backbone of industry—is a hotbed of competition.

A corrupt, unregenerate heart, which is a hotbed and nursery of the devil.

It is also overwhelmingly pro-regime, and since the start of Syrian unrest the region has become a hotbed of pro-Assad activity.

It is a hotbed of heathen enthusiasm and of blinded devotion.

Ipanema has long been the hotbed of beach apparel, launching looks like the tanga and the g-string.

The Gorge has always been a hotbed of radicalism and arms smuggling, but now it is fast becoming a shahid factory.

Baseball has long been the most popular sport in Cuba and the island has long been a hotbed of baseball talent.