(uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm. / (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping. / (informal, metonymically) A night.

(intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness. / (intransitive, of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sleep, in. / (intransitive, idiomatic) To sleep late; to go on sleeping past one's customary or planned hour.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sleep

plural of sleep

very sleepy; strongly wanting or needing to sleep / Marked by sleep

plural of sleepness

The state, condition, or instance of sleeping; sleep; sleepfulness.

An instance of sleeping in, sleeping late, sleeping until one feels fully refreshed rather than rising at a prespecified time.

(nonstandard, often transitive) simple past tense and past participle of sleep