ύπνος — meaning in English
Ypnos
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English meaning
- sleep verb To rest in the natural state of reduced consciousness that the body needs each day.
Senses
ύπνος is used for these senses in English:
- Hypnos (Greek god) The god and personification of sleep. The son of Nyx and Erebus, twin brother of Thanatos, husband of Pasithea, and the father of the Oneiroi. His Roman counterpart is Somnus.
- sleep (uncountable) Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
sleep — full definition
- verb To rest in the natural state of reduced consciousness that the body needs each day.
- verb (informal) To have sexual intercourse with someone.
- verb To be inattentive, careless, or unprepared for something.
- noun The state of rest the body enters each night, marked by reduced awareness of the surroundings.