sleeping

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsliːpɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -iːpɪŋ

Verb

sleeping

1. present participle and gerund of sleep
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     ‘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”, in 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.

Translations

asleep — see asleep

used for sleep; used to produce sleep

• Bulgarian: спален (spalen)
• Finnish: uni- (fi), nukkuma-, makuu- (fi)
• German: Schlaf- (de) (prefix)
• Russian: спа́льный (ru) m (spálʹnyj)

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• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} dormanta
• Latvian: ^{(please verify)} iemidzis m, ^{(please verify)} iemigusi f, ^{(please verify)} guļam-

Noun

sleeping (countable and uncountable, plural sleepings)

1. The state of being asleep, or an instance of this.
   • c. 1380, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, section I:

     And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye.

   • 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 (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 睡眠 (zh) (shuìmián)

• Finnish: nukkuminen (fi)
• French: sommeil (fr) m
• German: Schlaf (de) m
• Hungarian: alvás (hu)
• Japanese: 睡眠 (ja) (すいみん, suimin), 眠り (ja) (ねむり, nemuri)
• Korean: 잠 (ko) (jam), 수면 (ko) (sumyeon)
• Latvian: gulēšana f
• Polish: spanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: sono (pt) m, dormida f
• Russian: сон (ru) m (son)
• Spanish: durmiendo (es) m
• Ukrainian: сон (uk) m (son)

Derived terms

• African sleeping sickness
• born sleeping
• co-sleeping
• let sleeping dogs lie
• let the sleeping dogs lie
• sleeping at the switch
• sleeping bag
• sleeping barber problem
• Sleeping Beauty
• sleeping beauty
• sleeping car
• sleeping dictionary
• sleeping dragon
• sleeping draught
• sleeping giant
• sleeping hours
• sleeping language
• sleeping lions
• sleeping mat
• sleeping pad
• sleeping partner
• sleeping pill
• sleeping policeman
• sleeping power
• sleeping quarters
• sleeping room
• Sleeping Sexton
• sleeping sickness
• sleeping table
• sleeping tablet

 

Anagrams

• peelings, speeling

French

Noun

sleeping m (plural sleepings)

1. sleeping car

   Synonym: wagon-lit

Further reading

• “sleeping”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.