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sleeping mat

sleeping mat noun: a thin mat used to insulate a sleeper from the ground when sleeping outdoors.

Noun

sleeping mat (plural sleeping mats)

  1. A thin mat used to insulate a sleeper from the ground when sleeping outdoors.
    • The natives followed him to where a great tree overhung the palisade, and as Tarzan leaped for a lower branch and disappeared into the foliage above, precisely after the manner of Manu, the monkey, there were loud exclamations of surprise and astonishment. For half an hour they called to him to...1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 127

Forms of sleeping mat

pluralsleeping mats

Questions about sleeping mat

What does sleeping mat mean?
Sleeping mat means a thin mat used to insulate a sleeper from the ground when sleeping outdoors.
What part of speech is sleeping mat?
Sleeping mat is a noun.
What is the plural of sleeping mat?
The plural of sleeping mat is sleeping mats.

Words near sleeping mat in the dictionary

  1. sleeping like a log
  2. sleeping like a mouse
  3. sleeping like a rock
  4. sleeping like a top
  5. sleeping lions
  6. sleeping mat
  7. sleeping mats
  8. sleeping off
  9. sleeping on
  10. sleeping one off
  11. sleeping out

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