Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sleep-walker; a somnambulist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A somnambulist; a sleepwalker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare One who
sleepwalks atnight ; asomnambulist .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who walks about in their sleep
Etymologies
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Examples
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An exhausted proprietor at the head of his waiters, crazed with sleepiness, eventually succeeds in driving these noctambulist apostles into the streets.
Modern Painting 1892
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There are episodes in his life that recall the career of another man of genius, Gerard de Nerval, poet, noctambulist, suicide.
Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890
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Thompson christened a prestidigious noctambulist-has literally stormed over it.
Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890
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The reader, if he has ever plied the fascinating trade of the noctambulist, will not be unaware that, in the neighbourhood of the great railway centres, certain early taverns inaugurate the business of the day.
The Dynamiter Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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