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morning sleeps

morning sleeps is the plural of morning sleep.

Meaning of morning sleep

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

Questions about morning sleeps

What is morning sleeps the plural of?
Morning sleeps is the plural of morning sleep.

Words near morning sleeps in the dictionary

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

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