SHORT SLEEP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does short sleep mean? 

• SHORT SLEEP (noun)
  The noun SHORT SLEEP has 1 sense:

1. sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)

  Familiarity information: SHORT SLEEP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHORT SLEEP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

catnap; forty winks; light sleep; nap; short sleep; snooze

Hypernyms ("short sleep" is a kind of...):

sleeping (the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "short sleep"):

siesta (a nap in the early afternoon (especially in hot countries))

zizz (a nap)

 Context examples 

A short sleep, usually during normal waking hours.

(Nap, NCI Thesaurus)

Little is known, though, about the effects of longstanding short sleep duration under natural conditions.

(Chronic Sleep Deprivation Suppresses Immune System, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He no longer abused himself with short sleep, overwork, and overstudy.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This study employed "real world" conditions, he said, and showed for the first time that chronic short sleep shuts down programs involved in immune response of circulating white blood cells.

(Chronic Sleep Deprivation Suppresses Immune System, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)