Tom was taking a snooze.
Source: tatoeba (1040515)
Snooze
//snuːz//
Synonyms for "snooze" (38 found)
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Closest matches (8)
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Related words (19)
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11 entriesTranslations
79 translations across 23 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- غَفْوَة noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- غَفَا verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
Bulgarian
2 entries- дрямка noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- дремя verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
Catalan
4 entries- becada noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- becaina noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- capcinada noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- migdiada noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 小睡 noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- 打盹 verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
Dutch
1 entries- doezelen verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
Finnish
4 entries- nokoset noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- torkut noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- unettava noun (Something boring)
- torkahtaa verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
French
4 entries- roupillon noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- faire un somme verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
- faire une sieste verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
- piquer un roupillon verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
Galician
4 entries- cochar verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
- dormentar verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
- dormexar verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
- durmiñar verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
Georgian
3 entries- ხანმოკლე ძილი noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- თვლემს verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
- წაუძინებს verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
German
4 entries- Nickerchen noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- Schläfchen noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- dösen verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
- ein Nickerchen machen verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
Greek
3 entries- υπνάκος noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- λαγοκοιμάμαι verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
- παίρνω έναν υπνάκο verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
Hungarian
2 entries- durmol verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
- szunyál verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
Japanese
3 entries- うたた寝 noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- 居眠り noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- 居眠り verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
Māori
4 entries- hāmoemoe verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
- kānewha verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
- kānewhanewha verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
- nenewha verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اویقو noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
Persian
1 entries- چرت noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
Polish
2 entries- drzemka noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- zdrzemnąć się verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
Portuguese
4 entries- cochilo noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- sesta noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- cochilar verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
- dormitar verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
Romanian
2 entries- ațipi verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
- dormita verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
Russian
4 entries- дремо́та noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- дрёма noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- коро́ткий сон noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- лёгкий сон noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- dùsal noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- norrag noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- dèan dùsal verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
Spanish
4 entries- fastidio noun (Something boring)
- lata noun (Something boring)
- siesta noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- dormitar verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
Swedish
2 entries- tupplur noun (A period of sleep; a nap)
- ta en tupplur verb (To sleep, especially briefly; to nap)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
I hit the snooze button and went back to sleep.
Source: tatoeba (1070488)
You snooze, you lose.
Source: tatoeba (1140765)
I think I'll snooze for a while.
Source: tatoeba (1141362)
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