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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 customaryplay

  Familiarity information: SLEEP LATE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SLEEP LATE (verb)


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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