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somnambulist

[sɒmˈnæmbjʊlɪst]

somnambulist noun: a person who walks about in their sleep; a sleepwalker.

Noun

somnambulist (plural somnambulists)

  1. A person who walks about in their sleep; a sleepwalker.
    • The clergyman floundered a moment, as is usual with an absent man who is recovering the train of his ideas, or a somnambulist when he is suddenly awakened.1824, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 17, in St. Ronan's Well
    • The slim one got up and walked straight at me - still knitting with downcast eyes - and only just as I began to think of getting out of her way, as you would for a somnambulist, stood still, and looked up.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 199

somnambulist meaning in Hindi and Tamil

somnambulist in Hindi

a sleepwalker
निद्राचारी nidrācārī

somnambulist in Tamil

மகன்

Forms of somnambulist

pluralsomnambulists

Origin of somnambulist

Borrowed from French somnambuliste, from Medieval Latin somnambulus (“sleepwalker”). By surface analysis, somn- + -ambulist.

Questions about somnambulist

What does somnambulist mean?
Somnambulist means a person who walks about in their sleep; a sleepwalker.
What is somnambulist in Hindi?
Somnambulist in Hindi is निद्राचारी (nidrācārī). See Somnambulist meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is somnambulist?
Somnambulist is a noun.
How do you pronounce somnambulist?
Somnambulist is pronounced [sɒmˈnæmbjʊlɪst] (UK).
What is the plural of somnambulist?
The plural of somnambulist is somnambulists.

Words near somnambulist in the dictionary

  1. somnambulised
  2. somnambulises
  3. somnambulising
  4. somnambulism
  5. somnambulisms
  6. somnambulist
  7. somnambulistic
  8. somnambulistically
  9. somnambulists
  10. somnambulize
  11. somnambulized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: somnambulist (page history and authors); somnambulist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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