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morning sleep en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The second sleep of the night in a biphasic sleep pattern, after the watch.
   • Until the close of the early modern era, Western Europeans on most evenings experienced two major intervals of sleep bridged by up to an hour or more of quiet wakefulness. […] The succeeding interval of slumber was called “second” or “morning” sleep. 2001 April, A. Roger Ekirch, “Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles”, in The American Historical Review, volume 106, number 2, American Historical Association, pages 364–365:

Forms

Coordinates

dead sleep

Synonyms

next sleep · second sleep