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cosleeping

cosleeping is the present participle and gerund of cosleep.

cosleeping is the alternative form of co-sleeping.

Meaning of cosleep

Verb

cosleep (third-person singular simple present cosleeps, present participle cosleeping, simple past and past participle coslept)

  1. (intransitive) To sleep in the same bed (with someone), especially of a family member, parent, child, etc.
    • Both parents should feel comfortable with the decision to cosleep with their baby and be committed to following appropriate safety precautions.2005, Lauwers & Swisher, Counceling the Nursing Mother, page 259

Meaning of co-sleeping

Noun

co-sleeping (uncountable)

  1. The practice in which babies and young children sleep with one or both parents.

Questions about cosleeping

What is cosleeping the present participle and gerund of?
Cosleeping is the present participle and gerund of cosleep.

Words near cosleeping in the dictionary

  1. Cosio
  2. Cosklo
  3. cosleep
  4. cosleeper
  5. cosleepers
  6. cosleeping
  7. cosleeps
  8. coslept
  9. Coslett
  10. Coslettize
  11. coslice categories

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cosleeping (page history and authors); cosleep (page history and authors); co-sleeping (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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