sleep

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To rest with your eyes closed and your mind and body inactive.

   You should sleep eight hours a night.

2. 2
   noun

   The natural state of rest in which you are not awake.

   I didn't get enough sleep last night.

3. 3
   verb

   To have enough beds for a certain number of people.

   This tent sleeps six people.

Multiword verbs with sleep

• sleep over Phrasal verb A1

  to spend the night at someone else's home

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Simplified etymology

Sleep is an Old English word first recorded around AD 800. The expression sleep with in the sexual sense is also ancient and was used in Anglo-Saxon English.

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”),…

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