sleeping

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of sleeppresent participle and gerund of sleep

   ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’

adjective

1. 1

   Asleep.

   We found a sleeping child inside the church.

   Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

2. 2

   Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.

noun

1. 1

   The state of being asleep, or an instance of this.

   And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye.

   […] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.

Forms

plural

sleepings