pillow

Universal Words noun, verb noun 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.