English Dictionary

sandman

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈsænd.mæn/

名詞

廃用

(folklore) A figure that brings sleep and dreams by sprinkling magical sand into people's eyes. / Used as a symbol of the passage of time toward death. / (obsolete) A seller of sand.

日本語の意味

（フォークロア）魔法の砂を人の目に振りかけ、眠りと夢をもたらす存在 / （比喩的に）死へ向かう時間の経過を象徴する存在 / （古語、又は昔の用法）砂を売る人

As a child I used to hope the sandman would visit and replace my nightmares with gentle dreams.

子どものころ、目に魔法の砂を振りかけて眠りと夢をもたらす民間伝承の人物が訪れて悪夢を優しい夢に変えてくれることを願っていました。

意味（1）

(folklore) A figure that brings sleep and dreams by sprinkling magical sand into people's eyes.

This then was the Sandman; but what was his occupation, and what was his purpose ? The nursery-maid being applied to, gave a nursery-maid's explanation, that the Sandman was a bad man, who flung sand in the eyes of little children who did not go to bed.

意味（2）

Used as a symbol of the passage of time toward death.

意味（3）

(obsolete) A seller of sand.

While I was out, a sandman, who sells scouring sand, which women use to clean the baths with, passed through our street, and called, Any sand ho !

sandmen （ plural ）