colchón
Meanings
Noun
1. mattress (pad on which a person can recline and sleep)
2. buffer, cushion, padding (something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact)
3. nest egg (figurative, figuratively)
Examples7
Este colchón es muy duro.
This is a very hard mattress.
Tom escondió su cuchillo debajo del colchón.
Tom hid his knife under the mattress.
Ponemos la sábana sobre el colchón.
We put the sheet over the mattress.
María levantó el colchón para cambiar las sábanas.
Mary raised the mattress in order to change the sheets.
Tom durmió en el colchón inflable.
Tom slept on the inflatable mattress.
Tom escondió su dinero debajo de su colchón.
Tom hid his money under his mattress.