Synonyms for nap
næpnap

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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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1. • Texture
   • Time Period
   • Yarn

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. napnoun

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

2. napnoun

   Synonyms:
   doze, slumber, short sleep

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 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. Han Yue:

   It's really meeting a rigid demand as many professionals have a difficult time finding a nice private place to nap.

2. Douglas Teti:

   This suggests that' making up' for inadequate nighttime sleep by allowing one's child to nap during the day will not help children in their kindergarten transition. It is best to have that 10 + hours of sleep concentrated during the nighttime sleep period, and to try to make this as consistent as possible across nights.

3. Bob Hope:

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

4. Martha Stewart:

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

5. Carrie:

   There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.