light sleep

1. 1.

   sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)

   Synonymsnapcatnapshort sleepforty winkssnooze

   Broadersleeping

   Narrowersiestazizz

   colloquialism

Questions about light sleep

What does light sleep mean?

light sleep means "sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)".

What is another word for light sleep?

Close synonyms include nap, catnap, 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 light sleep a common word?

light sleep is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.