The clergyman floundered a moment, as is usual with an absent man who is recovering the train of his ideas, or a somnambulist when he is suddenly awakened.
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Somnambulist
/[sɒmˈnæmbjʊlɪst]/
Synonyms for "somnambulist" (5 found)
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44 translations across 28 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- լուսնոտ noun (a sleepwalker)
- քնաշրջիկ noun (a sleepwalker)
Belarusian
4 entries- лунацік noun (a sleepwalker)
- лунацічка noun (a sleepwalker)
- самнамбул noun (a sleepwalker)
- самнамбула noun (a sleepwalker)
Catalan
1 entries- somnàmbul noun (a sleepwalker)
Dutch
1 entries- slaapwandelaar noun (a sleepwalker)
Esperanto
1 entries- somnambulo noun (a sleepwalker)
Faroese
1 entries- svøvngangari noun (a sleepwalker)
Finnish
1 entries- unissakävelijä noun (a sleepwalker)
French
1 entries- somnambule noun (a sleepwalker)
Georgian
1 entries- მთვარეული noun (a sleepwalker)
German
1 entries- Schlafwandler noun (a sleepwalker)
Greek
1 entries- υπνοβάτης noun (a sleepwalker)
Hebrew
1 entries- סַהֲרוּרִי noun (a sleepwalker)
Hindi
1 entries- निद्राचारी noun (a sleepwalker)
Hungarian
2 entries- alvajáró noun (a sleepwalker)
- holdkóros noun (a sleepwalker)
Icelandic
1 entries- svefngengill noun (a sleepwalker)
Italian
1 entries- sonnambulo noun (a sleepwalker)
Lithuanian
1 entries- somnambulas noun (a sleepwalker)
Macedonian
1 entries- месечар noun (a sleepwalker)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- søvngjenger noun (a sleepwalker)
Polish
4 entries- lunatyczka noun (a sleepwalker)
- lunatyk noun (a sleepwalker)
- somnambuliczka noun (a sleepwalker)
- somnambulik noun (a sleepwalker)
Portuguese
2 entries- sonâmbula noun (a sleepwalker)
- sonâmbulo noun (a sleepwalker)
Romanian
2 entries- somnambul noun (a sleepwalker)
- somnambulist noun (a sleepwalker)
Russian
2 entries- луна́тик noun (a sleepwalker)
- сомна́мбула noun (a sleepwalker)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- mjȅsečār noun (a sleepwalker)
- mȅsečār noun (a sleepwalker)
- ме̏сеча̄р noun (a sleepwalker)
- мје̏сеча̄р noun (a sleepwalker)
Spanish
2 entries- somnámbulo noun (a sleepwalker)
- sonámbulo noun (a sleepwalker)
Swedish
2 entries- somnambul noun (a sleepwalker)
- sömngångare noun (a sleepwalker)
Turkish
1 entries- uyurgezer noun (a sleepwalker)
Ukrainian
1 entries- снови́да noun (a sleepwalker)
Sample sentences
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The slim one got up and walked straight at me - still knitting with downcast 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 must have promptly rejected an alternative explanation which would better fulfill the demands of verisimilitude (“My wife, poor thing, in her nervous condition, now is afflicted also with sleepwalking!”), seeing the laborious tasks to which the resumed somnambulist devotes herself: kneeling at the edge of a pit, she anoints the earth with murky philters (unless the implements she holds in her hand are to be interpreted actually as acetylene torches scattering sparks, to melt the lead seals of a coffin).
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