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somnambulant en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /sʌmnˈæmbjᵿlənt/

Etymology

From Latin somnus (“sleep”) + ambulō (“to walk”) + -ant.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Walking as if, or while, asleep; sleepwalking.
    • Hopeless lost souls of hell, trudging through a decaying shitstream of traffic, wandering, somnambulant herds of the damned, […] 2015, Jonathan Shaw, Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes, New York, N.Y. […]: Infinitum Nihil/Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 397:

Forms

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Deriveds

somnambulantly

Relateds

somnambulism · somnambulist · somnambulate

Synonyms

somnambulic (walking while asleep) · somnambulistic (walking while asleep)

Translations (3)

hu alvajáró (walking asleep) · pt sonâmbula (walking asleep) · pt sonâmbulo (walking asleep)

somnambulant en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /sʌmnˈæmbjᵿlənt/

Etymology

From Latin somnus (“sleep”) + ambulō (“to walk”) + -ant.

Meanings

  1. A sleepwalker.

Forms

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