sleeping

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsliːpɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -iːpɪŋ

Verb

sleeping

1. Present participle of sleep.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, The China Governess^[1]:

     ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’

Adjective

sleeping (not comparable)

1. Asleep.
   • 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34: 

     Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

2. Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.

Derived terms

• sleeping bag
• Sleeping Beauty
• sleeping car
• sleeping hours
• sleeping pill
• sleeping room

Translations

asleep — see asleep

used for sleep; used to produce sleep

• German: Schlaf- (de) (prefix)

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• Esperanto: dormanta

• Latvian: iemidzis m, iemigusi f, guļam-

Noun

sleeping (countable and uncountable, plural sleepings)

1. the state or act of being asleep.
   • 1995, Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (page 144)

     […] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.

Translations

state or act of being asleep

• Catalan: dormint m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 睡眠 (zh) (shuìmián)

• Finnish: nukkuminen (fi)
• French: sommeil (fr) m

• German: Schlaf (de) m
• Japanese: 睡眠 (すいみん, suimin), 眠り (ねむり, nemuri)
• Latvian: gulēšana f
• Russian: сон (ru) m (son)
• Spanish: durmiendo (es) m

Anagrams

• peelings

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French

Noun

sleeping m (plural sleepings)

1. sleeping car

Synonyms

• wagon-lit