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morning sleep

morning sleep noun: the second sleep of the night in a biphasic sleep pattern, after the watch.

Noun

morning sleep (usually uncountable, plural morning sleeps)

  1. (usually) The second sleep of the night in a biphasic sleep pattern, after the watch.
    • Until the close of the early modern era, Western Europeans on most evenings experienced two major intervals of sleep bridged by up to an hour or more of quiet wakefulness. […] The succeeding interval of slumber was called “second” or “morning” sleep.2001 April, A. Roger Ekirch, “Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles”, in The American Historical Review, volume 106, number 2, American Historical Association, pages 364–365

Synonyms of morning sleep

Forms of morning sleep

pluralmorning sleeps

Questions about morning sleep

What does morning sleep mean?
Morning sleep means the second sleep of the night in a biphasic sleep pattern, after the watch.
What part of speech is morning sleep?
Morning sleep is a noun.
What is the plural of morning sleep?
The plural of morning sleep is morning sleeps.

Words near morning sleep in the dictionary

  1. morning rolls
  2. morning room
  3. morning rooms
  4. morning show
  5. morning sickness
  6. morning sleep
  7. morning sleeps
  8. morning star
  9. morning stars
  10. morning sticks
  11. morning suit

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