1 a square or RECTANGULAR piece of fabric filled with soft material, used to rest your head on in bed:
She lay back against the pillows. * pillow talk (= conversations in bed between lovers) * He lay back on the grass using his backpack as a pillow. * The nurse plumped up the pillows. * a pillow fight (= a game in which people hit each other with pillows)
2 (AmE) = CUSHION
verb [VN] (literary) to rest sth, especially your head, on an object:
She lay on the grass, her head pillowed on her arms.
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