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say it: see-EH-stuh
siesta is a noun meaning "a nap in the early afternoon (especially in hot countries)". It is pronounced /siˈɛstə/ — see-EH-stuh. It carries one recorded sense.
a nap in the early afternoon (especially in hot countries)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for siesta come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.