sleeping

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsliːpɪŋ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːpɪŋ

Verb

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sleeping

  1. present participle and gerund of sleep

Adjective

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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.

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Noun

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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.

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French

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Noun

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sleeping m (plural sleepings)

  1. sleeping car
    Synonym: wagon-lit

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