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SOMNAMBULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does somnambulation mean? 

SOMNAMBULATION (noun)
  The noun SOMNAMBULATION has 1 sense:

1. walking by a person who is asleepplay

  Familiarity information: SOMNAMBULATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SOMNAMBULATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Walking by a person who is asleep

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

noctambulation; noctambulism; sleepwalking; somnambulation; somnambulism

Hypernyms ("somnambulation" is a kind of...):

walk; walking (the act of traveling by foot)

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

Derivation:

somnambulate (walk in one's sleep)


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