sleep

1. 1.

   be asleep

   Synonymskipslumberlog Z'scatch some Z's

   Antonymswake

   Broaderrest

   Narrowerbundlenapsleep latehibernateestivate
2. 2.

   be able to accommodate for sleeping

   “This tent sleeps six people”

   Broaderaccommodate

Other forms of sleep

plural

sleeps·

past tense or participle

slept

present participle

sleeping·

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 sleep

What does sleep mean?

sleep means "a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sleep?

sleep has 1 syllable: sleep. In IPA it is /ˈslip/.

What is another word for sleep?

Close synonyms include slumber, sopor, nap, rest, eternal rest. 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.

What is the opposite of sleep?

The recorded antonyms are wake.

Is sleep a common word?

sleep is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 sleep?

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