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 Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. napnoun

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

2. napnoun

   Synonyms:
   doze, slumber, short sleep

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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. Jodi Mindell:

   The study doesn't imply you shouldn't let your kids nap, there are only so many hours a day that you can sleep, but that doesn't mean that napping leads to poor sleep.

2. Tonya Stratton:

   Grama Linda, it's now your time to relax, but first you must learn the definition of that and then learn to sit without rocking, learn to appreciate quiet, no more piles and piles of laundry to fold, groceries to buy, diapers to change, it's your time now to rest, go through your memories, put your feet up or take a nap and try to understand how incredibly worthy you are to do whatever the hell you want.

3. Courtney Stodden:

   [ Teigen ] wouldn't just publicly tweet about wanting me to take' a dirt nap' but would privately DM me and tell me to kill myself, things like,' I can't wait for you to die.'.

4. Michael Grandner:

   First are naps that you take because you are so exhausted that you cannot stay awake, a nap in this case may help a little, but being that exhausted is a sign of insufficient sleep or a sleep disorder and it's unlikely that the nap can completely fix the problem.

5. Carrie:

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