- a place to sleep on a ship or train, or in a caravan synonym bunk
- a cabin with three berths
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- a place where a ship or boat can stop and stay, usually in a harbour
- a berth in dock
- Water and electricity are supplied at each berth.
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘adequate space at sea’): probably from a nautical use of the verb bear + -th.
Idioms
See berth in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygive somebody/something a wide berth
- to not go too near somebody/something; to avoid somebody/something
- He gave the dog a wide berth.
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