sleep

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended

   I didn't get enough sleep last night.

2. 2
   noun

   a period of time spent sleeping

   They felt better after a little sleep.

3. 3
   verb

   be able to accommodate for sleeping

   This tent sleeps six people

4. 4
   verb

   To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.

   You should sleep eight hours a day.

5. 5
   verb

   To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).

   Last night we slept together for the first time.

6. 6
   verb

   To accommodate in beds.

   This caravan can sleep four people comfortably.

7. 7
   verb

   To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.

   We ſleep over our Happineſs, Great as it is, and want to be rous'd into a quick and thankful ſenſe of it, either by an actual Change of Circumſtances, or by a Compariſon of our Own caſe with that of other Men.

8. 8
   verb

   To be dead.

   For if we beleeue that Ieſus died, and roſe againe: euen ſo them alſo which ſleepe in Ieſus, will God bring with him.

Etymology

From Middle English slepen, from Anglian Old English slēpan (West Saxon Old English slǣpan), from Proto-West Germanic *slāpan, from Proto-Germanic *slēpaną (“to sleep”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian sleepe, sliap, sliip, släipe (“to sleep”), Saterland Frisian släipe (“to sleep”), West Frisian sliepe (“to sleep”), Alemannic German schlaaffe, schlaafä, schlafe, schloafe, schloafen, schlofe, schlàfu (“to sleep”), Bavarian schlofn, schlåfn, sghlofn (“to sleep”), Central Franconian schlofe (“to sleep”), Cimbrian slaafan, slafan, slavan (“to sleep”), Dutch and Low German slapen (“to sleep”),…