What is another word for sleeps?

Pronunciation: [slˈiːps] (IPA)

When it comes to describing someone who is sleeping, there are countless options available beyond the straightforward "sleeps." Some synonyms for this word include "dozes," "naps," "rests," "slumbers," and "snoozes." Each of these words conveys a slightly different meaning, with "dozes" suggesting a light sleep, "naps" indicating a short period of rest during the day, "rests" referring to a time of relaxation or repose, "slumbers" suggesting a deep and peaceful sleep, and "snoozes" indicating a brief and possibly interrupted sleep. Other options could include "droops," "drowses," "snores," "dreams," or "catnaps," all of which could be used to describe various states of sleep and relaxation.

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What are the hypernyms for Sleeps?

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Usage examples for Sleeps

After such a night another girl would have been stricken with fever and she-how soundly she sleeps!
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Sorrow may teach wisdom; but how much more sleeps with him, who would not only have guided the survivor, but served all public ends.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
First, the Eskimos, put through a third degree behind closed doors, were reported to have said that I had not been more than two sleeps out of sight of land.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook

Famous quotes with Sleeps

  • Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
    Josh Billings
  • Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
    Malcolm De Chazal
  • In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
    Emile M. Cioran
  • One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.
    Georg Groddeck
  • Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
    Frank Herbert

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