short sleep

Questions about short sleep

What does short sleep mean?

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

What is another word for short sleep?

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

short 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.