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daysleeper

daysleeper noun: one who sleeps during the daytime.

Noun

daysleeper (plural daysleepers)

  1. One who sleeps during the daytime.
    • "I rose early to speak with you: I know you are a daysleeper."1975, Lester Del Rey, editor, Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, volume 4, Dutton, page 96
    • I see today with a newsprint fray / My night is colored headache gray / Daysleeper1998, R.E.M., “Daysleeper”, in Up

Forms of daysleeper

pluraldaysleepers

Origin of daysleeper

From day + sleeper.

Questions about daysleeper

What does daysleeper mean?
Daysleeper means one who sleeps during the daytime.
What part of speech is daysleeper?
Daysleeper is a noun.
What is the plural of daysleeper?
The plural of daysleeper is daysleepers.

Words near daysleeper in the dictionary

  1. dayshifts
  2. dayshine
  3. dayside
  4. daysides
  5. daysight
  6. daysleeper
  7. daysleepers
  8. dayslong
  9. daysman
  10. daysmen
  11. Dayson

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