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# sleeper

«sleeper» in Mova's school dictionary: **asleep, or who sleeps in a certain way: a light sleeper** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a sleeper, sleepers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person or animal who is asleep, or who sleeps in a certain way: a light sleeper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleeper/#m1)

2) A train with beds, or a bed on such a train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleeper/#m2)

3) (UK, Australia) A heavy wooden or concrete beam under railway tracks (US: tie). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleeper/#m3)

4) (UK) A small earring that keeps a pierced ear open. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleeper/#m4)

5) Something that becomes a hit slowly; a hidden spy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleeper/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, «I'm a light sleeper» means you wake easily. In travel, a sleeper train. In gardening, railway sleepers make raised beds. Phrases: light sleeper, heavy sleeper, sleeper train.

### examples

- Dad is a heavy sleeper; nothing wakes him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleeper/#x1)
- We took the sleeper train to Scotland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleeper/#x2)
- Railway sleepers hold the tracks in place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleeper/#x3)
- I'm a light sleeper, so I need quiet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleeper/#x4)
- The sleeper hit became famous a year later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleeper/#x5)
- She wears tiny gold sleepers in her ears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleeper/#x6)
- But generally he sucks the blood of sleepers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleeper/#x7)

### note

Countable. Related: sleepy, sleepover. Maths: sleepers along a track are evenly spaced, so it's a gaps-and-posts problem.

### In the corpora

- ["Rough sleeper" (official UK) means a homeless person who sleeps outside.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/19-money-and-poverty/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sleeper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleeper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.