sleeper
/ˈsliːpə(ɹ)/ اسم B2- Someone who sleeps. · I'm a light sleeper: I get woken up by the smallest of sounds.· She's a heavy sleeper: it takes a lot to wake her up.
- That which lies dormant, as a law.
- A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
- A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.
- A railway sleeping car. · We spent a night on an uncomfortable sleeper between Athens and Vienna.
- A sleeper hold.
- Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time. · A box-office bomb when it first came out, the film was a sleeper, becoming much more popular decades after being released.
- Any member of the family Odontobutidae of goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish.
الجمع sleepers
من المكتبة
Now it is well known that when there are many of these flowers together their odor is so powerful that anyone who breathes it falls asleep, and if the sleeper is not carried away from the scent of the flowers, he sleeps on and on forever.
I am a light sleeper, and it has awakened me.
Rikki-tikki woke up with a jump, for the mongooses are light sleepers.
They say that away down in the village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the sleepers from their beds.
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تعلّم sleeper في نصوص حقيقية
مع حساب مجاني، مرّر المؤشر فوق أي كلمة في المكتبة لترى معناها، واستمع إليها مقروءة بصوت عالٍ، واحفظ الكلمات لمراجعتها في مواعيد تناسب ذاكرتك، واعرف مقدار ما تعرفه من كل كتاب.