1 (used with an adjective) a person who sleeps in a particular way:
a heavy / light / sound sleeper
2 a person who is asleep:
Only the snores of the sleepers broke the silence of the house.
3 a night train with beds for passengers on it:
the LondonEdinburgh sleeper * I came up last night on the sleeper.
4 = SLEEPINGCAR
5 (BrE) (AmE tie) one of the heavy beams of wood or CONCRETE on which the rails on a railway/railroad track are laid
6 (informal, especially AmE) a film/movie, play or book that for a long time is not very successful and then is suddenly a success
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sleeper is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is sleeper a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sleeper is tagged as noun.
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