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n. A bedmate.

n. One that is closely associated or allied with another: "Stupidity here makes an easy bedfellow, as always, with racialism” ( Christopher Hitchens).

n. One with whom one shares a bed.

n. An associate, often an otherwise improbable one.

n. One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.

n. One who shares a bed with another.

n. a person with whom you share a bed

n. a temporary associate

"The next morning when the maid came in to make the fire, we woke up face to face in the same bed, and then she told me that her name was Belle Boyd, and I knew for the first time that my bedfellow was the South's famous female spy."

person    mortal    individual    someone    soul    somebody    associate   

strange bedfellows   

bedmate   

struggle    pollywog    legitimation