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bedtime_story

bedtime story

English

Noun

bedtime story ‎(plural bedtime stories)

A fairytale or other story read to somebody, usually a child, before they sleep.

Translations

story read to children before they sleep

Chinese:
Mandarin: 睡前故事 ‎(shuìqián gùshì)
Esperanto: antaŭdorma rakonto
Estonian: unejutt
Finnish: iltasatu

French: histoire du soir (fr) f
German: Gutenachtgeschichte f
Japanese: 寝物語 ‎(ねものがたり, nemonogatari)
Russian: ска́зка на́ ночь f ‎(skázka ná nočʹ)
Swedish: godnattsaga (sv) c