Sleeper Synonyms

slēpər
A passenger car that has berths for sleeping
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sleeping-car
  2. slumberer
  3. wagon-lit
One of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. tie
  2. railroad-tie
  3. crosstie
Tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sleeper goby
A dazzling, often sudden instance of success
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. hit
  2. smash
  3. smash hit
  4. ten-strike
  5. wow
  6. boff
  7. boffo
  8. boffola
  9. sleepwalker
  10. somnambulist

Words Related to Sleeper

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Sleeper Sentence Examples

  • It is regarded by many savage peoples as highly dangerous to arouse a sleeper suddenly, as his soul may not have time to return.

  • Epicureanism generally was content to affirm that whatever we effectively feel in consciousness is real; in which sense they allow reality to the fancies of the insane, the dreams of a sleeper, and those feelings by which we imagine the existence of beings of perfect blessedness and endless life.

  • Occasionally the joints thus formed are " supported " on a sleeper, as was the practice in the early days of railway construction, but they are generally " suspended " between two sleepers, which are set rather more closely together than at other points in the rail.

  • The mummy thus prepared was then laid on its side like a sleeper, the head supported by a head-rest, in a sarcophagus of wood or stone.

  • Just give me a nudge if you change your mind—I'm a light sleeper.

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