Sleep

Definition: Sleep

Sleep

Noun

1. A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber".

2. A torpid state resembling sleep.

3. A period of time spent sleeping; "he felt better after a little sleep"; "a brief nap".

4. Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep".

Verb

1. Be asleep.

2. Be able to accommodate for sleeping; "This tent sleeps six people".

Date "sleep" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Specialty Definition: Sleep

Domain	Definition
Computing	Sleep vi. 1. [techspeak] To relinquish a claim (of a process on a multitasking system) for service; to indicate to the scheduler that a process may be deactivated until some given event occurs or a specified time delay elapses. 2. In jargon, used very similarly to v. block; also in `sleep on', syn. with `block on'. Often used to indicate that the speaker has relinquished a demand for resources until some (possibly unspecified) external event: "They can't get the fix I've been asking for into the next release, so I'm going to sleep on it until the release, then start hassling them again.". Source: Jargon File.
Dream Interpretation	To dream of sleeping on clean, fresh beds, denotes peace and favor from those whom you love. To sleep in unnatural resting places, foretells sickness and broken engagements. To sleep beside a little child, betokens domestic joys and reciprocated love. To see others sleeping, you will overcome all opposition in your pursuit for woman's favor. To dream of sleeping with a repulsive person or object, warns you that your love will wane before that of your sweetheart, and you will suffer for your escapades. For a young woman to dream of sleeping with her lover or some fascinating object, warns her against yielding herself a willing victim to his charms. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Literature	Sleep (Anglo-Saxon slaepen). Crabbe's etymology of doze under this word is exquisite:- "Doze, a variation from the French dors and the Latin dormio (to sleep), which was anciently dermio and comes from the Greek derma (a skin), because people lay on skins when they slept "!- Synonyms. To sleep away. To pass away in sleep, to consume in sleeping; as, to sleep one's life away. To sleep off. To get rid of by sleep. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Medicine	The physiological process by which bodily functions are periodically rested. Source: European Union. (references)
Multilingual Slang	Catalan (sobar). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
SLEEP	English	Swedish Low Energy Experimental Pile	Nuclear Energy & Physics
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insensibility	Torpor, torpidity; obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state; sleep; suspended animation; stupor, stupefaction; paralysis, palsy; numbness; (physical insensibility).
Physical Insensibility	Noun: insensibility, physical insensibility; obtuseness. Adjective: palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia, anaesthesia; sleep; hemiplegia, motor paralysis; vegetable state; coma.
Quiescence	Quiet, tranquility, calm; repose; peace; dead calm, anticyclone; statue-like repose; silence; not a breath of air, not a mouse stirring; sleep; (inactivity).
Repose	Noun: repose, rest, silken repose; sleep.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.) I'll bet you 105,000 dollars that you go to sleep before I do. (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; writing credit: B. Traven; John Huston) A number of the inmates, as tough as they acted during the day, would often cry themself to sleep at night (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) Do you still sleep with a gun under your pillow (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) I'm terribly worried about him. He won't eat, he can't sleep, he keeps coughing up blood (The Addams Family; writing credit: Caroline Thompson)
Lyrics	And I can't get to sleep (Clockwork Creep; performing artist: 10CC) Did you sleep on the wrong side (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah) Or tell me who to eat with sleep with (Goody Two Shoes; performing artist: Adam Ant) Is it easy to sleep in the bed that we made (What It Takes; performing artist: Aerosmith) Sleep like a child resting deep (Sweet Dreams; performing artist: Air Supply)
Clever	If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen. (references; author: unknown) On Nytol Sleep Aid: "Warning: May cause drowsiness. (references; author: unknown) Sometimes I wake up grumpy. Other times I let her sleep. (references; author: unknown) The best bridge between hope and despair is often a good night's sleep. (references; author: unknown) It is better to sleep on what you intend doing than to stay awake over what you've done. (references; author: unknown)
Tongue Twisters	June sheep sleep soundly. (references; author: unknown) Laura and Larry rarely lull their rural roosters to sleep. (references; author: unknown) Sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack. Sheep should sleep in a shed. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Deep Sleep (1973) Sleep (1963) When They Sleep (1957) The Black Sleep (1956) We Never Sleep (1956)
Song Titles	Sleep (performing artist: Little Willie John) DON'T SLEEP IN THE SUBWAY (performing artist: Petula Clark ) I Can't Sleep Baby (If I) (performing artist: R. Kelly) Sleep Walk (performing artist: Santo & Johnny) Last Night I Didn't Get To Sleep (performing artist: The Fifth Dimension)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Sleep Apnea (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Hypnosis to Help You Sleep Deeply (reference) Delta Sleep Inducing Peptide Dsip (reference) Sleep Deprivation: Lack of Sleep Can Make You Moody, Ineffective, Even Dangerous [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) The Diencephalon and Sleep (reference) Sleep Disturbance in Children and Adolescents with Disorders of Development : Its Significance and Management (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	The Big Sleep (reference) Kidsongs - Good Night, Sleep Tight (reference) Sleep with Me (reference) The Big Sleep (Theatrical Version) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (An Anthology) (reference) Sleep Soundly (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Philips 19PS45S 19" Television with On-Screen Clock/Alarm and Sleep Timer (Black) (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	Aero 40010 Children's Sleep Away Bed (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Sullivan and Ride Show Sleep Restraints. Credit: NASA.		Aquanauts relax inside HYDROLAB; held 4 but only 3 could sleep at one time. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).
	Friends don't let friends drive drunk. : drive your friend home have your firend sleep over call a cab. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Eat nutritious food. Find fun in exercise. Sleep and relaxation. Cleanliness. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	A luckless bull-frog lost his voice while talking in his sleep, and now he'll never fish it out -- his voice it is so deep. Credit: Library of Congress.		Perhaps if I feed him he'll go to sleep. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Is he talking in his sleep, or am I dreaming?. Credit: Library of Congress.		Autumn pastimes. Father has taken to groaning in his sleep again --. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Beginning a 5000 year sleep. Credit: Library of Congress.		A sharpshooter's last sleep, Gettysburg, July, 1863 / Alex. Gardner, photographer. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.


"Baby sleep" by Andre Pereira Commentary: "Baby sleeping and dreaming."	"Aeroplane sleep" by Patrick Jongenelen Commentary: "Sleep."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Yawn; tired; exhausted; catch flies; divide; doze; drowse; expand; gap; gape; give; nap; part; sleep; snooze; spread; yaw; yawp; apathy; detachment; disgust; distaste; doldrums; dullness; ennui; fatigue; flatness; incuriosity; indifference; irksomeness; j.		Digital; snoring; whistling; whistle; snore; wheeze; wheezing; saw logs; sawing logs; respiring; respire; sleeping; sleep; dozing; doze.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Benjamin Franklin	Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
George Herbert	One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.
Homer	There she met sleep, the brother of death.
Jean Jacques Rousseau	Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Jean Paul Richter	Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
Percy Bysshe Shelley	How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.
Samuel Rutherford	My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
Thomas De Quincey	Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
William Shakespeare	Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Her father composed himself to sleep after dinner, as usual, and she had then only to sit and think of what she had lost
After Three Days	Carroll, Lewis	Thus, as a sunless deep Mirrors the shining heights that crown the bay, So did my soul create anew in sleep The picture seen by day.
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Her only real comfort was when the child lay in the placidity of sleep.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	I understood that we ought to retire in order that this traveller might sleep, and we both went to our rooms
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Soon he would sleep.
Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury	His wife smiled in her sleep. Why
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	I shall not sleep in quiet at the Tower
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Get some sleep, Tom.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	These circumstances, added to the refreshment I had received by their victuals and drink, which were very nourishing, disposed me to sleep.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	When he was refreshed with food and sleep, he contemplated his journey again
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Interference with sleep. (references)
		Fatigue and sleep problems. (references)
		They also occur during sleep. (references)
Business		Sixty-eight percent of all German households have 4-10 places to sleep. (references)
		Its major brands include the ginseng supplement Red Kooga, the calcium product Calcia, and sleep and relaxation aids Natrasleep and Natracalm. (references)
		Tread mills, tonometers, ultrasound inhalers, respiratory muscle training equipment, equipment for physical, ozone and hypoxia therapy, sleep therapy devices, orthopedic products are also produced at the domestic enterprises. (references)
Children	Angola	Living conditions in government youth hostels are so poor that the majority of homeless children preferred to sleep on city streets. (references)
Civil Liberties	China	Pastor Li Dexian was detained in April 2000 for 15 days, during which time he was forced into a crouch for 3 days, unable to sleep or use toilet facilities, with his wrists and ankles manacled together. (references)
Human Rights	Guyana	Inmates generally sleep on a thin pallet on the concrete floor. (references)
Minorities	Moldova	Local church member volunteers reportedly sleep in his house to protect him. (references)
Political Economy	Israel and the occupied territories	The Commission's work was expected to continue into 2002. A landmark decision by the High Court of Justice in September 1999 prohibited the use of a variety of other abusive practices, including violent shaking, painful shackling in contorted positions, sleep deprivation for extended periods of time, and prolonged exposure to extreme temperatures; however, during the year, human rights organizations, including B'tselem, Human Rights Watch (HRW), and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), and the Mandela Institute for Political Prisoners reported that there was an increase in the number of allegations that security forces tortured detainees, including using methods prohibited in the High Court decision. (references)
Travel	Argentina	Work luncheons are frequent for business executives and they generally extend from 1.00 to 3.00 p.m. Business dinners, and dinners in general, do not begin until 9.00 or 10.00 p.m., therefore it is common to return home or to the hotel to sleep for few hours before going out. (references)
Worker Rights	Indonesia	They live in isolation on the sea on platforms the size of basketball courts, work 12 to 20 hours per day in dangerous conditions, and sleep in the workspace with no access to sanitary facilities or schooling. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the following lines by the illustrious Ambat Delaso: TO MY PET TORTOISE My friend, you are not graceful -- not at all; Your gait's between a stagger and a sprawl. Nor are you beautiful: your head's a snake's To look at, and I do not doubt it aches. As to your feet, they'd make an angel weep. 'Tis true you take them in whene'er you sleep. No, you're not pretty, but you have, I own, A certain firmness -- mostly you're [sic] backbone. Firmness and strength (you have a giant's thews) Are virtues that the great know how to use -- I wish that they did not; yet, on the whole, You lack -- excuse my mentioning it -- Soul. So, to be candid, unreserved and true, I'd rather you were I than I were you. Perhaps, however, in a time to be, When Man's extinct, a better world may see Your progeny in power and control, Due to the genesis and growth of Soul. So I salute you as a reptile grand Predestined to regenerate the land. Father of Possibilities, O deign To accept the homage of a dying reign! In the far region of the unforeknown I dream a tortoise upon every throne. I see an Emperor his head withdraw Into his carapace for fear of Law; A King who carries something else than fat, Howe'er acceptably he carries that; A President not strenuously bent On punishment of audible dissent -- Who never shot (it were a vain attack) An armed or unarmed tortoise in the back; Subject and citizens that feel no need To make the March of Mind a wild stampede; All progress slow, contemplative, sedate, And "Take your time" the word, in Church and State. O Tortoise, 'tis a happy, happy dream, My glorious testudinous regime! I wish in Eden you'd brought this about By slouching in and chasing Adam out.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	An animal whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect, must be disposed to sleep of course.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	To hear them talk, you'd never know that the nightmare of nuclear annihilation has been lifted from our sleep.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Anyone who has ever watched a child's eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	46.65%	3,182	2,968
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	46.59%	3,178	2,969
Lexical Verb (base form)	6.74%	460	12,751
Total	100.00%	6,820	N/A

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "sleep".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Bethshan	N/A	Biblical	Of sleep
Maralah	N/A	Biblical	Sleep
Shunem	N/A	Biblical	Their sleep
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "sleep": affect to sleep ♦ be unable to sleep ♦ beauty sleep ♦ bonds of sleep ♦ broken sleep ♦ can not sleep ♦ cat sleep ♦ catch up sleep ♦ cause to sleep ♦ cry oneself to sleep ♦ deep sleep ♦ did you sleep well? ♦ do it in one's sleep ♦ electrically induced sleep ♦ eternal sleep ♦ fast sleep ♦ Feeling of unsatisfying sleep ♦ Fox sleep ♦ get off to sleep ♦ get some sleep ♦ get to sleep ♦ go off to sleep ♦ go to sleep ♦ going off to sleep ♦ have a good sleep ♦ have not enough sleep ♦ have one's sleep out ♦ hush a baby to sleep ♦ in one's sleep ♦ let sleep dogs lie ♦ light sleep ♦ lull to sleep ♦ make up for the lost sleep ♦ nonrapid eye movement sleep ♦ not have a wink of sleep ♦ not have enough sleep ♦ not to get a wink of sleep ♦ not to sleep a wink ♦ nrem sleep ♦ orthodox sleep ♦ paradoxical sleep ♦ paroxysmal sleep ♦ pay sleep ♦ place to sleep ♦ put to sleep ♦ put to sleep again ♦ putting to sleep ♦ rapid eye movement sleep ♦ read smb. to sleep ♦ REM sleep ♦ REM Sleep Behavior Disorder ♦ REM Sleep Parasomnias ♦ repose sleep ♦ resign oneself to sleep ♦ restless sleep ♦ rock to sleep ♦ send back to sleep ♦ send smb. to sleep ♦ send to sleep ♦ sham sleep ♦ short sleep ♦ sing a baby to sleep ♦ sing a child to sleep ♦ sing smb. to sleep ♦ sink into a deep sleep ♦ Sleep apnea ♦ Sleep Apnea Syndromes ♦ sleep around ♦ Sleep Arousal Disorders ♦ sleep at one's post ♦ sleep away ♦ Sleep Bruxism ♦ sleep deeply ♦ Sleep Deprivation ♦ sleep disorder ♦ Sleep Disorders ♦ Sleep Disturbance ♦ sleep double ♦ sleep in ♦ Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders ♦ sleep it off ♦ sleep late ♦ sleep light ♦ sleep lightly ♦ sleep like a dog ♦ sleep like a dormouse ♦ sleep like a log ♦ sleep like a top ♦ sleep like log ♦ sleep of plants ♦ sleep off ♦ sleep on ♦ sleep on it ♦ sleep on the bare ground ♦ sleep oneself out ♦ sleep out ♦ sleep over ♦ sleep paralysis ♦ sleep rough ♦ sleep smth. off ♦ sleep soundly. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "sleep": sleep-argument, sleep-around, Sleep-at-noon, sleep-cell, Sleep-charged, sleep-compelling, sleep-conducive, sleep-crammed, sleep-creased, sleep-cycles, sleep-deprivation, sleep-deprived, sleep-destroying, sleep-dirt, sleep-dream, sleep-drugged, sleep-famished, sleep-filled, Sleep-Inducing, sleep-inducing, sleep-learning, sleep-line, sleep-logged, sleep-muddled, sleep-muffled, sleep-onset, sleep-out, sleep-puffed, sleep-reduction, sleep-related, sleep-related, sleep-safe, sleep-save, sleep-sodden, sleep-stage, sleep-starved, sleep-talker, sleep-time, sleep-tousled, Sleep-Wake, Sleep-Wake Transition Disorders, sleep-walked, sleep-walker, sleep-walkers, sleep-walking, sleep-weary.
	Ending with "sleep": pre-sleep.
	Containing "sleep": pre-sleep-loss.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Alexander Benedetto	William is lying there sleeping in the guest house there. We go back in. We sit down, watch a little TV, unwind a little bit, go to sleep.
Erin Runnion	May save some lives, that's what I'm saying. That it has to save lives. That's the only reason that this could happen. That the previous victims get to sleep better at night because he's gone. And just the knowledge that nobody else will be hurt by him.
Jodie Foster	I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes. Especially when you're pregnant, you need your sleep.
Karen Shanor	If we miss that REM sleep, and alcohol and a lot of medications cut down the proportion in REM sleep, you actually have memory problems.
Rush Limbaugh	Don't dare get into that deep REM or the nap will be worse than if you didn't go to sleep at all.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
sleep apnea	2,872	sleep train	153
sleep	2,731	sleep product	150
sleep inn	1,848	sleep country canada	143
sleep disorder	1,307	sleep apnea symptom	141
sleep deprivation	525	sit and sleep	141
sleep with the angel	445	country sleep	140
baby sleep	294	obstructive sleep apnea	137
sleep number bed	267	go to sleep	132
amphitheater sleep train	246	sit n sleep	130
sleep paralysis	236	sleep apena	128
armor for sleep	221	eminem go lyrics sleep	122
sleep walking	209	sleep apnea treatment	122
sleep problem	208	sleep number	118
sleep aids	202	sleep aid	117
sleep mask	194	sleep study	117
the lion sleep tonight	193	armor lyrics sleep	112
sleep apnia	162	sleep away camp	111
sleep team	158	sleep inn hotel	111
go lyrics sleep	156	better sleep	107
over sleep	153	sleep inn suite	104
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "sleep"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		slaap (be asleep). (various references)

Albanian		gjumë (doss, dreamland, repose, rest, shut eye, slumber), fle (be asleep, kip, slumber). (various references)

Arabic		‏كرى, ‏هجوع (slumber), ‏هجع (slumber), ‏نوم (put smb. to bed, put to sleep, rest, send smb. to sleep, shake down, shut eye), ‏نام (doss, fall asleep, go to sleep, hibernate, slumber, vegetative), ‏سكون (calmness, easement, hush, inactivity, placidity, quiescence, quiet, quietude, remission, repose, rest, sedation, still, stillness, tranquillity), ‏سبات (coma, lethargy, sopor, stupor, torpor), ‏ضاجع (copulate, get laid, lie with, make love, take to one's bed), ‏إتسع لعدد معين, ‏رقاد (rest, shut eye). (various references)

Asturian		durmir (to sleep). (various references)

Aymara		iquiña (bed, to sleep). (various references)

Basque		lo egin (sleep to). (various references)

Bemba		ukusendama (to sleep). (various references)

Blackfoot		yo'kaa (to sleep). (various references)

Bulgarian		сън (bye bye, doss, dream, kip, repose), спя (flop, kip, slumber), спокоен съм (rest), спане (bye bye, doss, kip), тих съм, нощувам (doss), заспал съм, бездействувам (be inactive, drift, hibernate, idle, screw around, sit back, slumber, twiddle one's thumbs), побирам (accommodate, admit, carry, contain, hold, receive, seat, sit, store, take). (various references)

Cebuano		matulog (to sleep). (various references)

Chamorro		para man maigó (to sleep). (various references)

Chinese		眠 , 睡眠, 夢寐 (dream). (various references)

Cornish		cuska (to sleep). (various references)

Czech		spát. (various references)

Danish		søvn. (various references)

Dutch		slapen (be asleep), slaap (temple), maffen (be asleep). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua		puñuna (to sleep). (various references)

Esperanto		dormo, dormi (be asleep). (various references)

Faeroese		sova (be asleep). (various references)

Farsi		خفتن , خوابیدن (Kip, Lie), خواب رفتن , خواب (Asleep, Dream, Nap). (various references)

Finnish		nukkua (be asleep, fall asleep, go to sleep). (various references)

French		sommeil (slumber), dormir (slumber). (various references)

Frisian		sliepe (be asleep, to sleep). (various references)

German		Schlaf (shut eye, shuteye, sleepiness, slumber), schlafen (be asleep, be quiet, nod, roost, slumber, to sleep, to sleep (slept). (various references)

Greek		κοιμάμαι (get to sleep). (various references)

Guarani		rokemíta (we shall sleep a little bit). (various references)

Haitian Creole		dòmi. (various references)

Hawaiian		gjumë, fle (be asleep). (various references)

Hebrew		ישן (asleep, old, sleeping, slumbering), לישון (fall asleep, go to sleep, slumber), ללון (kip, spend the night, stay overnight), להרדם (drowse, fall asleep, go to sleep, nod, slumber), תנומה (doze, nap, slumber), נומה (drowsiness, slumber, somnolence). (various references)

Hungarian		alvás (dormancy, doss, sleeping, slumber), alszik (be asleep, kip, to be sacked out, to doss, to hibernate, to kip, to lie dormant, to roost, to sleep like a log, to sleep like a pig, to sleep like a top), álom (doss, dream). (various references)

Icelandic		sofa (be asleep). (various references)

Indonesian		tidur (asleep, dormant), bobo. (various references)

Inuktitut		siniktuq (to sleep). (various references)

Irish		suan, codlach, codail. (various references)

Italian		sonno (slumber), dormire (be asleep, roost, shake down). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		睡眠 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すいみん, ねむり, きゅう (ball, being absent, being finished, ex-, gather, gift, globe, nine, rest, retire, sphere, steep, sudden, taking a day off, urgent, wage), スリープ , ね (cost, first sign of Chinese zodiac, merit, note, price, root, sound, value, worth). (various references)

Kongo		ku-leka (to sleep). (various references)

Korean		잠 (sleeping). (various references)

Luganda		wasuze (did you sleep, your sleep). (various references)

Macedonian		spie (to sleep). (various references)

Manx		cadley (sleepiness). (various references)

Maori		moe-a (to sleep). (various references)

Maya		wen (to sleep). (various references)

Norwegian		sove (be asleep). (various references)

Occitan		dormir. (various references)

Papago		kohsh (to sleep). (various references)

Papiamen		drumi (be asleep). (various references)

Pidgin English		sleep (slept, to sleep). (various references)

Pig Latin		eepslay.(various references)

Polish		spać (be asleep). (various references)

Portuguese		sono (repose, rest, sandman, sleepiness, time-out), dormir (be asleep, doss, fall asleep, kip, lie, rest). (various references)

Provencal		dormir (to sleep). (various references)

Romanian		somn (Bedfordshire, bye bye, kip, repose, rest), dormi (be asleep, doze, slumber, snooze). (various references)

Romansch		durmir (to sleep). (various references)

Romany		sootò (to sleep). (various references)

Ruanda		kugwama (to sleep). (various references)

Russian		сон (doss, dream, dreamland, dreamworld, rest, shut eye, shuteye, shut-eye, slumber), спячка, спать сон, спать (be asleep, doss, kip, repose, rest, sleeps, slept, slumber). (various references)

Samoan		e moe (to sleep). (various references)

Scottish		caidil (be asleep), cadal. (various references)

Sepedi		boroko (to sleep). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		spavati (bunk, kip), san (dream), prespavati (oversleep, sleep away). (various references)

Shona		-kotsira (to sleep). (various references)

Sicilian		accogliri (to sleep). (various references)

Somali		seexdaa. (various references)

Sotho		robalang, robala. (various references)

Spanish		dormir (be asleep, bunk down, doss, doze, kip, live, roost, slumber), sueño (delusion, disappointment, dream, eagerness, exaltation, kip, love, shut eye, sleeping, slumber, vision). (various references)

Sranan		sribi (be asleep). (various references)

Swahili		usingizi. (various references)

Swazi		kú-lála (to sleep). (various references)

Swedish		sömn (kip, sleeping), sova (be asleep). (various references)

Tagalog		matúlog (be asleep). (various references)

Thai		ไม่กระฉับกระเฉง, การหลับ, หลับ (kip, sack out, Z's). (various references)

Tswana		robetse (slept), robala. (various references)

Turkish		uyumak (be asleep, be inactive, doss, go to sleep, have rest, kip, rest, slumber, snooze). (various references)

Turkmen		uky (dream), uklamak (fall asleep), яatmak (lie down). (various references)

Ukrainian		сон (doss, dream, dreamland, shut eye, sleeping, slumber), спати (be asleep, doss, kip, take a rest), сплячка (torpidity), німіти, ночувати (bed, doss), заніміння. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự tĩnh dưỡng sự chết (slept), sự ngủ sự nghỉ ngơi (slept), giấc ngủ (slept, slumber). (various references)

Welsh		cysgu. (various references)

Wolof		nelew (to sleep). (various references)

Xhosa		ulale (Did you sleep, You sleep). (various references)

Yucatec		wenel (be asleep). (various references)

Zulu		-lele (be asleep). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	u, u-sa. (various references)
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	hypnos. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	somnus. (various references)
Avestan	200-600	hvafna. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 20, Verse 13
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Mh agapa katalalein ina mh exarqhV dianoixon touV ofqalmouV sou kai emplhsqhti artwn
Latin	405	Vulgate	Noli diligere somnum ne te egestas opprimat aperi oculos tuos et saturare panibus
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Wile thou not looue slep, lest thee nedynesse opresse; opene thin eyen, and be thou fulfild with loues.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thy eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sleep": sleeper, sleepers, sleepier, sleepiest, sleepily, sleepiness, sleepinesses, sleeping, sleepings, sleepless, sleeplessly, sleeplessness, sleeplessnesses, sleeplike, sleepover, sleepovers, sleeps, sleepwalk, sleepwalked, sleepwalker, sleepwalkers, sleepwalking, sleepwalks, sleepwear, sleepy, sleepyhead, sleepyheads. (additional references)
	Words ending with "sleep": antisleep, asleep, outsleep, oversleep, presleep. (additional references)
	Words containing "sleep": outsleeping, outsleeps, oversleeping, oversleeps. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sleep" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cleep, fleep, gleep, kleeep, sbep, sfep, shleep, sjep, skeep, slea, sleap, sleapt, sleept, sleev, slei, slej, sleq, slex, sloap, smep, sqep, svep, sxep, syep. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sleep" (pronounced slē"p)
4	s l ē" p	asleep.
3	-l ē" p	bleep, leap.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: peels, peles, speel.
	Words within the letters "e-e-l-p-s"
	-1 letter: eels, else, lees, peel, pees, pele, seel, seep.
	-2 letters: eel, els, lee, pee, pes, see, sel.
	-3 letters: el, es, pe.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-l-p-s"
	+1 letter: asleep, bleeps, clepes, elapse, elopes, expels, keleps, lepers, pelves, pestle, please, plebes, repels, semple, sleeps, sleepy, speels, spleen.
	+2 letters: beleaps, eclipse, elapsed, elapses, ellipse, elopers, empales, epistle, expulse, helpers, kelpies, leapers, leprose, pebbles, peddles, pedlers, peelers, peepuls, pegless, pelages, pelisse, pelites, pellets, pelmets, pelters, pencels, pensile, peoples, pestled, pestles, petrels, pettles, pleased, pleaser, pleases, pledges, pollees, presale, presell, relapse, repeals, replies, repulse, respell, respelt, sepaled, skelped, sleeper, speckle, speeled, speiled, spelean, spelled, speller, spelter, spiegel, spieled, spieler, spleens, spleeny, steeple, steeply, temples, yelpers.
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Sleep

Definition: Sleep

Sleep

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Specialty Definition: Sleep

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Sleep (band)

Sleep and learning

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SLEEP

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Insensibility

Physical Insensibility

Quiescence

Repose

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Benjamin Franklin

George Herbert

Homer

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Paul Richter

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Samuel Rutherford

Thomas De Quincey

William Shakespeare

Use in Literature: Sleep

Emma

Austen, Jane

After Three Days

Carroll, Lewis

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

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Devil's Dictionary

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Alexander Benedetto

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