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Synonyms for nap
næpnap

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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. sleep, napnoun

    a period of time spent sleeping

    "he felt better after a little sleep"; "there wasn't time for a nap"

    Synonyms:
    eternal sleep, sopor, eternal rest, snooze, quietus, pile, cat sleep, slumber, sleep, forty winks, short sleep, rest, catnap

  2. napnoun

    a soft or fuzzy surface texture

    Synonyms:
    catnap, short sleep, sleep, cat sleep, forty winks, snooze, pile

  3. pile, napnoun

    the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave

    "for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction"

    Synonyms:
    tidy sum, mound, peck, mint, plenty, lot, spile, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, atomic reactor, short sleep, spate, muckle, big money, mass, bundle, pile, snooze, good deal, stack, mountain, galvanic pile, atomic pile, deal, piling, stilt, big bucks, chain reactor, megabucks, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, down, great deal, mess, forty winks, sight, voltaic pile, sleep, cat sleep, cumulus, catnap, cumulation, pot, agglomerate

  4. nap, catnap, cat sleep, forty winks, short sleep, snoozenoun

    sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)

    Synonyms:
    snooze, pile, cat sleep, sleep, forty winks, short sleep, catnap

  5. Napoleon, napverb

    a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes

    Synonyms:
    snooze, pile, cat sleep, sleep, forty winks, short sleep, catnap

  6. nap, catnap, catch a winkverb

    take a siesta

    "She naps everyday after lunch for an hour"

    Synonyms:
    catnap, catch a wink

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. napnoun

    Synonyms:
    v. doze, slumber, drowse, take a short sleep

  2. napnoun

    Synonyms:
    doze, slumber, short sleep

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "nap":

    naps, pan, siesta, anp, mr, napas, day, npa, bread, napa, nip, pal

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How to use nap in a sentence?

  1. Martha Stewart:

    I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.

  2. Kateryna Like:

    On New Year’s Eve, I tried to take a nap, but I woke to the sound of explosions, and they went on through the night. The sirens were on for much of the night, until 4:30 a.m..

  3. Jane Fallon:

    I get up, I play, I have soup, lentil soup, I have a little nap like a toddler and then Im ready to go again.

  4. Bob Hope:

    I don't generally feel anything until noon then it's time for my nap.

  5. Michael Grandner:

    Rather than a nap by necessity, this is a nap by choice.


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