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sleeping
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sli?p??/
- Rhymes: -i?p??
Verb
sleeping
- present participle of sleep
Adjective
sleeping (not comparable)
- Asleep.
- Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
sleeping (countable and uncountable, plural sleepings)
- The state of being asleep, or an instance of this.
- c. 1380, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, I:
- And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye.
- c. 1380, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, I:
Translations
Anagrams
- peelings, speeling
French
Noun
sleeping m (plural sleepings)
- sleeping car
Synonyms
- wagon-lit
Further reading
- “sleeping” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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nightcap
English
Etymology
night +? cap
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?na?t?kæp/
Noun
nightcap (plural nightcaps)
- A warm cloth cap worn while sleeping, often with pajamas, being common attire in northern Europe before effective home heating became widespread. [From 14th c.]
- Winston wore a nightcap to stave off the cold.
- A beverage drunk before bed that is usually alcoholic. [From 1818.]
- I'll make myself a nightcap of whisky and lemon before heading to bed.
- (by extension, figuratively) Something the person reads or listens to before bed.
- 1920, Granville Stanley Hall, Recreations of a Psychologist
- " […] and as a nightcap I happened to pick the copy of Plato […] "
- 1920, Granville Stanley Hall, Recreations of a Psychologist
- (US, sports, baseball) The final match of a sporting contest, especially the second game of a baseball doubleheader. [From 1939.]
- (historical) A cap drawn over the face of the condemned person before they are hanged.
Translations
Anagrams
- patching
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