Meaning

1 senses

  1. To take a siesta; to nap.

Examples

25 sentences

  1. Do you still take a siesta every day?

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  2. I'm going to have a siesta.

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  3. Are you still taking siestas?

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  4. Tom didn't take a siesta.

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  5. You got up from the siesta.

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Origin

Borrowed from Spanish siesta, from Latin sexta (“the sixth hour from dawn, noon, midday”).

Borrowed from Spanish siesta, from Latin sexta (“the sixth hour from dawn, noon, midday”). Doublet of sext.

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Forms

siestas, siestaing, siestaed, siestaed
Base formsiesta · to siesta
3rd person singularsiestas
Present participlesiestaing
Past simplesiestaed
Past participlesiestaed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysiesta
he, she, itsiestas

Past simpleLesson

all personssiestaed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave siestaed
he, she, ithas siestaed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill siesta

Synonyms

1 synonyms
siest

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sidingsiegesierrasievesift

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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