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1a small bed for a baby that can be pushed gently from side to side She rocked the baby to sleep in his cradle.
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- 2[usually singular] cradle of something the place where something important began Greece, the cradle of Western civilization
- 3the part of a telephone on which the receiver rests Idioms
a way of referring to the whole of a person's life, from birth until death
to have a sexual relationship with a much younger person
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