Nouns starting with S

• sleep — Noun – English ～ a torpid state resembling deep sleep
• sleep-learning — Noun – English ～ teaching during sleep (as by using recordings to teach a foreign language to someone who is asleep)
• sleep disorder — Noun – English ～ a disturbance of the normal sleep pattern
• sleep — Noun – English ～ euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"
• short sleep — Noun – English ～ sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)
• sleeper goby — Noun – English ～ tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
• sleeper nest — Noun – English ～ a nest of sleepers awaiting a prearranged signal; "sleeper nests of Islamic terrorists were capable of launching major attacks in Europe"
• sleeper — Noun – English ～ pajamas with feet; worn by children
• sleeper — Noun – English ～ a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal
• sleeper — Noun – English ～ a rester who is sleeping
• sleeper — Noun – English ～ one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track; "the British call a railroad tie a sleeper"
• sleeper — Noun – English ～ an unexpected achiever of success; "the winner was a true sleeper--no one expected him to get it"
• sleeper cell — Noun – English ～ a cell of sleepers; "an al-Qaeda sleeper cell may have used Arizona as its base"
• sleeper — Noun – English ～ an unexpected hit; "that movie was the sleeper of the summer"
• sleeper — Noun – English ～ a passenger car that has berths for sleeping
• sleeper — Noun – English ～ a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed
• sleeper — Noun – English ～ tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
• sleepiness — Noun – English ～ a very sleepy state; "sleepiness causes many driving accidents"
• sleeping draught — Noun – English ～ a soporific drug in the form of a pill (or tablet or capsule)
• sleeping around — Noun – English ～ indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations

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