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Sound
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noun
A short sleep taken in the daytime in order to refresh a person and generally terminated before deep sleep begins so as not to leave the sleeper drowsy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Coined by American social psychologist and academic James Maas.
Across languages
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
