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SLEEP LATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sleep late mean?
• SLEEP LATE (verb)
The verb SLEEP LATE has 1 sense:
1. sleep later than usual or customary
Familiarity information: SLEEP LATE used as a verb is very 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 late" is one way to...):
catch some Z's; kip; log Z's; sleep; slumber (be asleep)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Context examples
"Do you forget," he said, with actually a smile, "that last night he banqueted heavily, and will sleep late?"
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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