Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending to produce sleep; hypnotic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somnific; soporific; tending to produce sleep.
- noun That which causes or induces sleep; a soporific.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective inducing or causing
sleep - noun any
pharmaceutical product that causessleep
Etymologies
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From Latin somnus (sleep) + facio (I make)
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