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SLEEP IN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sleep in mean?
• SLEEP IN (verb)
The verb SLEEP IN has 2 senses:
1. sleep later than usual or customary
2. live in the house where one works
Familiarity information: SLEEP IN used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sleep later than usual or customary
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
sleep in; sleep late
Context example:
On Sundays, I sleep in
Hypernyms (to "sleep in" is one way to...):
catch some Z's; kip; log Z's; sleep; slumber (be asleep)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Live in the house where one works
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
live in; sleep in
Context example:
our babysitter lives in, as it is too far to commute for her
Hypernyms (to "sleep in" is one way to...):
board (provide food and lodging (for))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Context examples
Four hours of sleep in the twenty-four had meant being robbed of four hours of life.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I wonder if I could sleep in mother's room to-night.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
For more than a century, scientists have explored the role of sleep in storing memories.
(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)
The study underscores the importance of sleep in maintaining good cognitive functioning.
(Study ties poor sleep to reduced memory performance in older adults, National Science Foundation)
My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It is being studied as a way to improve sleep in cancer patients undergoing treatment.
(Garden heliotrope, NCI Dictionary)
"Potential benefits associated with increased sleep in childhood may have implications for health in adulthood," he added.
(An Hour Less Sleep Ups Diabetes Risk, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
“You will wait and see papa,” said Agnes, cheerfully, “and pass the day with us? Perhaps you will sleep in your own room? We always call it yours.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
You are aware, perhaps, that in this house all the servants sleep in the modern wing.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Being unable to sleep in bed, I got up and opened the window.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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