som·nam·bu·lism

(sŏm-năm′byə-lĭz′əm)

som·nam′bu·list n.

som·nam′bu·lis′tic adj.

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Noun

somnambulist - someone who walks about in their sleep

noctambulist, sleepwalker

sleeper, slumberer - a rester who is sleeping

Translations

Schlafwandler

υπνοβάτης

sonámbulo

unissakävelijä

निद्राचारी

alvajáróholdkóros

sonnambulo

somnambulas

sonâmbulo

somnambulsomnambulist

лунатик сомнамбула

somnambulist

[sɒmˈnæmbjʊlɪst] N → sonámbulo/a m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

somnambulist

n → Nacht- or Schlafwandler(in) m(f), → Mondsüchtige(r) mf, → Somnambule mf (spec)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

somnambulist

[sɒmˈnæmbjʊlɪst] n (frm) → sonnambulo/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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With those words uttered impetuously, Will rose, put out his hand to Rosamond, still with the air of a somnambulist, and went away.

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Like a somnambulist aroused from her sleep Natasha went out of the room and, returning to her hut, fell sobbing on her bed.

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In short, the night's work had so exhausted and worn out this actor in it, that he had become a mere somnambulist. He was too tired to rest in his sleep, until he was even tired out of being too tired, and dropped into oblivion.

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It was a ramshackle affair, dragged along by a knock-kneed, broken-winded somnambulist, which his owner, in a moment of enthusiasm, during conversation, referred to as a horse.

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At night, asleep, he lived with the gods in colossal nightmare; and awake, in the day, he went around like a somnambulist, with absent stare, gazing upon the world he had just discovered.

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So he left her to remain in the shop in a waking trance, and went away himself down the street like a somnambulist. Genevieve dreamed through the afternoon and knew that she was in love.

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Finding the drawing-room dark, he went upstairs, and spent some time between the bedroom and the dressing-room, changing his clothes, going to and fro with the air of a thoughtful somnambulist. But he shook it off before going out again to join his wife at the house of the great lady patroness of Michaelis.

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'My gentle somnambulist,' said Mr Mifflin, aggrieved, 'I was doing nothing with this tiller.

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When they found him wandering along the hallways at night, or climbing over giddy roofs, or running in the hills, they decided he was a somnambulist. In reality he was wide-eyed awake and merely under the nightroaming compulsion of his early self.

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"You haven't even asked me where I am taking you." He started like a somnambulist awakened suddenly, and there was now some meaning in his stare; a sort of alarmed speculation.

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The slim one got up and walked straight at me--still knitting with down- cast eyes--and only just as I began to think of getting out of her way, as you would for a somnambulist, stood still, and looked up.

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He carried his head well up, but he had the expression of a somnambulist struggling with the very dream which drives him forth to wander in dangerous places.

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