catnap

1. 1.

   take a siesta

   “She naps everyday after lunch for an hour”

   Synonymsnapcatch a wink

   Broadersleep

   Narrowersnooze

Other forms of catnap

plural

catnaps·

past tense or participle

catnapped

present participle

catnapping

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about catnap

What does catnap mean?

catnap means "sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in catnap?

catnap has 2 syllables: cat-nap. The stress falls on "cat". In IPA it is /ˈkætˌnæp/.

What is another word for catnap?

Close synonyms include nap, light sleep, short sleep, forty winks, snooze. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is catnap a common word?

catnap is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with catnap?

2 words rhyme with catnap. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.