Meaning

4 senses
  1. A somnambulist; one who walks, or is active, while asleep.

    someone who walks about in their sleep

  2. A person from whom a voodoo practitioner (a bocor) has taken over control of their mind, making them a zombie who must do the bocor's bidding.

  3. (figuratively)One who goes though life in a state of obliviousness.

  4. (archaic)One in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep; someone in a hypnotic trance.

Examples

9 sentences
  1. They say never wake up a sleepwalker.

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  2. Are you a sleepwalker?

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  3. Tom is a sleepwalker.

    ruТом - лунатик.

    deTom ist Schlafwandler.

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  4. My foster son is a sleepwalker.

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  5. When you walk like that you look like a sleepwalker.

    deWenn du so gehst, siehst du genauso aus wie eine Schlafwandlerin.

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Origin

From sleep + walker or sleepwalk + -er.

From sleep + walker or sleepwalk + -er.

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Forms

plural: sleepwalkers

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedsleepwalk

See also

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