nap

1. 1.

   take a siesta

   “She naps everyday after lunch for an hour”

   Synonymscatnapcatch a wink

   Broadersleep

   Narrowersnooze

Other forms of nap

plural

naps·

past tense or participle

napped

present participle

napping

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 nap

What does nap mean?

nap means "a period of time spent sleeping". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nap?

nap has 1 syllable: nap. In IPA it is /ˈnæp/.

What is another word for nap?

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

nap is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 nap?

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