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SOMNAMBULIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does somnambulist mean?
• SOMNAMBULIST (noun)
The noun SOMNAMBULIST has 1 sense:
1. someone who walks about in their sleep
Familiarity information: SOMNAMBULIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who walks about in their sleep
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
noctambulist; sleepwalker; somnambulist
Hypernyms ("somnambulist" is a kind of...):
sleeper; slumberer (a rester who is sleeping)
Derivation:
somnambulism (walking by a person who is asleep)
Context examples
He found himself sitting on the edge of the bed and staring about him like an awakened somnambulist.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
At night, asleep, he lived with the gods in colossal nightmare; and awake, in the day, he went around like a somnambulist, with absent stare, gazing upon the world he had just discovered.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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