HOTBED
\hˈɒtbɛd], \hˈɒtbɛd], \h_ˈɒ_t_b_ɛ_d]\
Definitions of HOTBED
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.
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A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition.
By Oddity Software
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A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.
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A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition.
By Noah Webster.
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A bed of earth covered with glass and made artificially warm to force the growth of plants; hence, any place or condition that promotes rapid growth or great activity.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A glass-covered bed heated for bringing forward plants rapidly: any place favorable to rapid growth.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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