Definitions for rip van winkle
ˌrɪp væn ˈwɪŋ kəlrip van win·kle

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.5 / 2 votes

1. Rip van Winklenoun

   a person oblivious to social changes

2. Rip van Winklenoun

   a person who sleeps a lot

3. Rip van Winklenoun

   the title character in a story by Washington Irving about a man who sleeps for 20 years and doesn't recognize the world when he wakens

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1. Rip Van Winkle

   "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their liquor and falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains. He awakes 20 years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution. The concept is ancient, including the 70-year nap by Choni HaMeA-Gail.Irving, inspired by a conversation on nostalgia with his American expatriate brother-in-law, wrote his story while temporarily living in Birmingham, England. It was published in his collection, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. While the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains near where Irving later took up residence, he admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills."

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1. rip van winkle

   "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by American author Washington Irving, published in 1819. It is about a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution. The phrase "Rip Van Winkle" can also refer to someone who is oblivious or ignorant to the changes happening around them.

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1. Rip Van Winkle

   "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819 as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.. Although the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills."

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1. Rip Van Winkle

   a Dutch colonist of New York who, driven from home by a termagant wife strolls into a ravine of the Katskill Mountains, falls in with a strange man whom he assists in carrying a keg, and comes upon a company of odd-looking creatures playing at ninepins, but never uttering a word, when, seizing an opportunity that offered, he took up one of the kegs he had carried, fell into a stupor, and slept 20 years, to find his beard and all the world about him quite changed.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rip van winkle in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rip van winkle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of rip van winkle in a Sentence

1. Ryan Padgett:

   I felt like Rip Van Winkle, waking up ... and realizing that the world had shut down.

2. Bill Gross:

   A purchase of Treasuries and a sale of Bunds allows for not only a potential capital gain if the spread narrows, but a yield pickup while the Rip Van Winkle investor potentially waits for a probable outcome.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=rip van winkle
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Van_Winkle
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=rip van winkle
5. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#RipVanWinkle