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Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow proper noun: a census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.

Proper noun

Sleepy Hollow

  1. A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
  2. A village in Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York, United States.
  3. A locality in the Tweed council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Noun

Sleepy Hollow (plural Sleepy Hollows)

  1. Any very quiet and uneventful locality.
    • Sydney has had the reputation of being a regular Sleepy Hollow compared to the Victorian capital. But, of late, it has waked up.1877, Julian Thomas, The Vagabond Papers
    • Yes, but Tom is somewhere among the Alps just now and there's no one else in this fascinating Sleepy Hollow of yours that we could get in time […]1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

Forms of Sleepy Hollow

pluralSleepy Hollows

Questions about Sleepy Hollow

What does Sleepy Hollow mean?
Sleepy Hollow means a census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
What part of speech is Sleepy Hollow?
Sleepy Hollow can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Sleepy Hollow in the dictionary

  1. Sleepy Eye
  2. sleepy gobies
  3. sleepy goby
  4. sleepy head
  5. sleepy heads
  6. Sleepy Hollow
  7. Sleepy Joe
  8. sleepy lizard
  9. sleepy sand
  10. sleepy sickness
  11. sleepy underwing

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