English dictionary

sleep

/sl/i/p/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended

noun.state

Examples
He didn't get enough sleep last night.

Synonyms slumber

Source: WordNet 3.0
a torpid state resembling deep sleep

noun.state

Synonyms sopor

Source: WordNet 3.0
a period of time spent sleeping

noun.time

Examples
He felt better after a little sleep.

Synonyms nap

Source: WordNet 3.0
euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)

noun.state

Examples
They had to put their family pet to sleep.

Synonyms eternal rest eternal sleep quietus rest

Source: WordNet 3.0
A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state.

noun

Source: webster1913

be asleep

verb.body

Antonyms wake

Source: WordNet 3.0
be able to accommodate for sleeping

verb.stative

Examples
This tent sleeps six people.

Source: WordNet 3.0
To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber.

verb

Source: webster1913
To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to <i>sleep</i> a dreamless sleep.

verb

Source: webster1913