Sandman

Synonyms for "sandman"

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25 translations across 18 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • Сънчо noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)

Danish

1 entries
  • Ole Lukøje noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)

Dutch

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  • Klaas Vaak noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)

Esperanto

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  • sablovendisto noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)

Finnish

2 entries
  • nukkumatti noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)
  • unijukka noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)

French

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  • marchand de sable noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)

Galician

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  • Pedro Chosco noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)

German

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  • Sandmann noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)
  • Sandmännchen noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)

Irish

1 entries
  • Seán Ó Néill noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)

Italian

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  • omino del sonno noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)

Marathi

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  • सँडमॅन noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • João Pestana noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)
  • joão-pestana noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)

Romanian

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  • Moș Ene noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)

Russian

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  • песо́чный челове́к noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)

Scots

1 entries
  • Dream Angus noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries
  • Bodach nan Casan-clòimhe noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)
  • Dòmhnall Slaodach noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)
  • Dòmhnall Sàmhach noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)
  • MacSuain noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)

Swedish

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  • John Blund noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)

Welsh

2 entries
  • Huwcyn noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)
  • Siôn Cwsg noun (figure who brings good sleep and dreams)

Sample sentences

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This then was the Sandman; but what was his occupation, and what was his purpose ? The nursery-maid being applied to, gave a nursery-maid's explanation, that the Sandman was a bad man, who flung sand in the eyes of little children who did not go to bed.

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1811, Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, Told by the Sultaness of the Indies, Henry Mozley (publ.), page 114. While I was out, a sandman, who sells scouring sand, which women use to clean the baths with, passed through our street, and called, Any sand ho !

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