Sleeps
/sliːps/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:8 ptsWWF:10 pts6 letters
Definition of Sleeps
verb
- To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
"You should sleep 8 hours a day."
- (of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- To accommodate in beds.
"This caravan can sleep four people comfortably."
- To be slumbering in (a state).
"to sleep a dreamless sleep"
noun
- The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
"I really need some sleep."
- An act or instance of sleeping.
"I’m just going to have a quick sleep."
- (metonymically) A night.
"There are only three sleeps till Christmas!"
- 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).
"Wipe the sleep from your eyes."
- 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.
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