Antonyms for hotbed

Grammar : Noun

Spell : hot-bed

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɒtˌbɛd

Definition of hotbed

Origin : 1620s, from hot + bed (n.); originally "bed of earth heated by fermenting manure for forcing growing plants;" generalized sense of "place that fosters rapid growth" is from 1768.

As in nerve center : noun center of activity
As in trouble spot : noun volatile situation
As in center : noun middle point
As in midpoint : noun center
As in den : noun cavern, hideaway

Example sentences :

Sects were springing up all over England as weeds in a hotbed.
Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude

If there is no greenhouse, a hotbed is an important help in the garden.
Extract from : « Agriculture for Beginners » by Charles William Burkett

Industry—and the engineer is the backbone of industry—is a hotbed of competition.
Extract from : « Opportunities in Engineering » by Charles M. Horton

It is a hotbed of heathen enthusiasm and of blinded devotion.
Extract from : « A Tour of the Missions » by Augustus Hopkins Strong

A corrupt, unregenerate heart, which is a hotbed and nursery of the devil.
Extract from : « Sanctification » by J. W. Byers

The East Side, that had been orderly, became a hotbed of child crime.
Extract from : « The Battle with the Slum » by Jacob A. Riis.

Memphis was a hotbed of secessionists; it was almost as bad as Charleston.
Extract from : « My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field » by Charles Carleton Coffin

For this purpose, a hotbed frame may be used, substantially made of plank.
Extract from : « The Book of Roses » by Francis Parkman

Now there is nothing simpler than a hotbed when you come to a study of it.
Extract from : « ABC of Vegetable Gardening » by Eben Eugene Rexford

Some persons tell me that they always bank up a hotbed with earth.
Extract from : « ABC of Vegetable Gardening » by Eben Eugene Rexford

Synonyms for hotbed

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