Word for the day: sleep

sleep |sliːp|                    *dormir (in Spanish) 



DEFINITION

noun [ mass noun ]
1 a condition of body and mind which typically recurs for several hours every night, in which the nervous system is inactive, the eyes closed, the postural muscles relaxed, and consciousness practically suspended: I was on the verge of sleep | [ in sing. ] : a good night's sleep.• chiefly literary a state compared to or resembling sleep, such as death or complete silence or stillness: a photograph of the poet in his last sleep.• [ count noun ] informal (typically in the context of anticipating a forthcoming event) a night, or a night's sleep: two more sleeps till I fly to LA.2 a gummy secretion found in the corners of the eyes after sleep: she sat up, rubbing the sleep from her eyes.

ORIGIN 

Old English slēp, slǣp (noun), slēpan, slǣpan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutchslapen and German schlafen .

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