Definitions of sleeper [ˈsli pər]

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Definition of 'sleeper'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) sleeper
a person or thing that sleeps.

2.  sleeper
a heavy horizontal timber for distributing loads.

3.  sleeper
any long wooden, metal, or stone piece lying horizontally, as a sill or footing.

4.  sleeper
any of a number of wooden pieces, laid upon the ground or upon masonry or concrete, to which floorboards are nailed.

5.  sleeper
an unexpected success, esp. a film or play originally ignored or considered a failure.

6.  sleeper
Often, sleepers. one-piece or two-piece pajamas with feet, esp. for children.

7.  sleeper
a piece of furniture, as a sofa, that opens up or unfolds into a bed.

8.  sleeper
¹ (def. 2).

Definition of 'sleeper'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) sleeper, slumberer
a rester who is sleeping

2. (noun) sleeper
a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal

3. (noun) sleeper
an unexpected achiever of success
"the winner was a true sleeper--no one expected him to get it"

4. (noun) tie, railroad tie, crosstie, sleeper
one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
"the British call a railroad tie a sleeper"

5. (noun) sleeping car, sleeper, wagon-lit
a passenger car that has berths for sleeping

6. (noun) sleeper
pajamas with feet; worn by children

7. (noun) sleeper
a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed

8. (noun) sleeper, sleeper goby
tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water

9. (noun) sleeper
an unexpected hit
"that movie was the sleeper of the summer"

Definition of 'sleeper'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) sleeper
one who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person

2. (noun) sleeper
that which lies dormant, as a law

3. (noun) sleeper
a sleeping car

4. (noun) sleeper
an animal that hibernates, as the bear

5. (noun) sleeper
a large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix)

6. (noun) sleeper
a nurse shark. See under Nurse

7. (noun) sleeper
something lying in a reclining posture or position

8. (noun) sleeper
one of the pieces of timber, stone, or iron, on or near the level of the ground, for the support of some superstructure, to steady framework, to keep in place the rails of a railway, etc.; a stringpiece

9. (noun) sleeper
one of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story

10. (noun) sleeper
one of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter

11. (noun) sleeper
the lowest, or bottom, tier of casks

Translation of 'sleeper'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a person who sleeps Nothing occurred to disturb the sleepers.
Afrikaans: slaper	Arabic: نائِم	Bulgarian: спящ човек
Brazilian: o que dorme	Czech: spáč	German: der/die Schläfer(in)
Danish: (en) sovende	Greek: κοιμώμενος	Spanish: durmiente
Estonian: magaja	Farsi: خوابيده	Finnish: nukkuja
French: dormeur/-euse	Hebrew: אָדָם שֵיָשֵן	Hindi: सोने वाला
Croatian: spavač	Hungarian: alvó	Indonesian: orang yang tidur
Icelandic: sofandi maður	Italian: dormiente, (chi dorme)	Japanese: 眠っている人
Korean: 잠자는 사람	Lithuanian: miegantysis	Latvian: gulētājs
Malay: orang yang tidur	Dutch: slaper	Norwegian: den sovende
Polish: śpiący	Persian: خوابيده	Pashto: خوب وړى، ويديدونكى: اړم ي
Portuguese: o que dorme	Romanian: adormit	Russian: спящий
Slovak: spáč	Slovenian: spalec	Serbian: spavač
Swedish: den sovande	Thai: คนนอนหลับ	Turkish: uyuyan kişi
Taiwanese: 睡眠者	Ukrainian: сплячий	Urdu: سونے والا
Vietnamese: người ngủ	Chinese: 睡眠者
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