sleep

Meaning

Verb

1. To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
2. To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
3. To accommodate in beds.
4. To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
5. To be dead.
6. To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
7. To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
8. To place into a state of hibernation.
9. To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
10. To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.

Noun

1. The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
2. (informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
3. (informal) A night.
4. Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
5. A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
6. The hibernation of animals.

Concepts

sleep

slumber

lie down

be asleep

fall asleep

nap

rest

sleeping

doze

go to sleep

repose

go to bed

snooze

kip

dream

drowse

sleepiness

asleep

drowsiness

lying down

rheum

lie

retire

catnap

sopor

relax

sleep well

be sleepy

lay down

drowsy

take a nap

roost

catch some Z’s

log Z’s

eternal rest

eternal sleep

quietus

doss

dozing

put to sleep

camp

get off

close the eyes

turn in

stay in bed

eye discharge

eye mucus

rest in a state of sleep

go to bed: slumber

perch

beddy-bye

wakefulness

lie down to rest

retiring to rest

dreaming

flop

hibernation

be

somnus

secretion of the eye

be dead

hibernate

make

sleepy-dust

relaxation

sleepers

eye gunk

eye boogers

sleepydust

stay overnight

crash

oneirism

sexual intercourse

sleep lightly

night

slug

live

remain

stay

sleep with

at ease

pause

feeling

sense

sensory

numbness

break

take a rest

forty winks

lay-down, to

lay

recline

lie (down)

sleeps

close eyes

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sliːp/

Etymology

From Middle English slepen, from Anglian Old English slēpan, a variant of slǣpan, from Proto-West Germanic *slāpan, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną.