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sleepings

sleepings is the plural of sleeping.

Meaning of sleeping

Noun

sleeping (countable and uncountable, plural sleepings)

  1. The state of being asleep, or an instance of this.
    • And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye.c. 1380, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, section I

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Questions about sleepings

What is sleepings the plural of?
Sleepings is the plural of sleeping.

Words near sleepings in the dictionary

  1. sleeping with
  2. sleeping with one eye open
  3. sleeping with one's fathers
  4. sleeping with the fishes
  5. sleepingly
  6. sleepings
  7. sleepingwear
  8. sleepiphany
  9. sleepish
  10. sleepless
  11. sleeplessly

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