Meaning of "sleeping suit" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF SLEEPING SUIT

sleeping suit  [ˈsliːpɪŋ suːt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SLEEPING SUIT

Sleeping suit is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SLEEPING SUIT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nightwear

Nightwear – also called sleepwear, nightclothes, or nightdress – is clothing designed to be worn while sleeping. The style of nightwear worn may vary with the seasons, with warmer styles being worn in colder conditions and vice versa. Some styles or materials are selected to be visually appealing or erotic in addition to their functional purposes. Nightwear includes: ▪ Adult onesie - and other all-in-one footed sleepsuits worn by adults but similar to an infant onesie or children's blanket sleeper, usually made from cotton, and marketed under a number of different brand names. ▪ Babydoll - a short, sometimes sleeveless, loose-fitting nightgown or negligee for women, generally designed to resemble a young girl's nightgown. ▪ Blanket sleeper - a warm sleeping garment for infants and young children. ▪ Chemise - when used in reference to sleepwear, it is a delicate, usually provocative, loose-fitting, sleeveless, shirt-like lingerie, similar to babydoll, but tighter at the hips. ▪ Negligee - loose, sensuous nightwear for women usually made of sheer or semi-translucent fabrics and trimmed with lace or other fine material, and bows.

Definition of sleeping suit in the English dictionary

The definition of sleeping suit in the dictionary is an all-in-one outfit that babies and young children sleep in.

TRANSLATION OF SLEEPING SUIT

Find out the translation of sleeping suit to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of sleeping suit from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sleeping suit» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 睡裙
• Translator English - Spanish: traje de dormir
• English: sleeping suit
• Translator English - Hindi: सो सूट
• Translator English - Arabic: دعوى النوم
• Translator English - Russian: спальный костюм
• Translator English - Portuguese: terno dormir
• Translator English - Bengali: ঘুমন্ত মামলা
• Translator English - French: costume de couchage
• Translator English - Malay: Saman tidur
• Translator English - German: Schlafanzug
• Translator English - Japanese: 睡眠のスーツ
• Translator English - Korean: 수면 정장
• Translator English - Javanese: Turu
• Translator English - Vietnamese: phù hợp với ngủ
• Translator English - Tamil: தூங்கும் வழக்கு
• Translator English - Marathi: झोपलेला सूट
• Translator English - Turkish: pijama
• Translator English - Italian: sonno
• Translator English - Polish: kombinezon do spania
• Translator English - Ukrainian: спальний костюм
• Translator English - Romanian: costum de dormit
• Translator English - Greek: κοστούμι ύπνου
• Translator English - Afrikaans: slaap pak
• Translator English - Swedish: sovande kostym
• Translator English - Norwegian: sove dress

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLEEPING SUIT»

Discover the use of sleeping suit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sleeping suit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Crime of the Century

mail to Condon his next set of instructions along with the sleeping suit the child was wearing when he was taken. That would serve as proof that the gang actually had him. Condon indicated that he would place the ad the next morning and the ...

Gregory Ahlgren And, 2012

Crime of the Century: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Hoax

Interestingly, although Betty Gow was questioned extensively by the prosecutor about the other clothes the child was wearing, and was asked to identify them piece by piece, she was never asked to identify the sleeping suit. Was it because the ...

Greg Ahlgren, Stephen R. Monier, 1993

The Case That Never Dies: The Lindbergh Kidnapping

There would always remain questions about the sleeping suit, whether it was Charlie's, and if so, when it had been removed?41 Colonel Norman Schwarzkopf told a strategy session of the New Jersey State Police on May 18, 1932, “This suit  ...

Lloyd Gardner, 2012

Dorneywood: The Caldwell Series

When Condon expressed doubt that John actually had the baby, he promised some proof: the kidnapper would soon return the baby's sleeping suit. The stranger told Condon, “I would be executed, if the baby were dead?” When questioned ...

Dan Ryan, 2012

The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' and The Secret Sharer

I got a sleeping suit out of my room and, coming back on deck, saw the naked man from the sea sitting on the main hatch, glimmering white in the darkness, his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands. In a moment he had concealed his ...

Joseph Conrad, 2010

Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: Part I - The ...

Clothed "in [his] sleeping suit" (653), the captain is confronted by his "double" who climbs out of the "darkling glassy shimmer of the sea" (654): "It was . . . as though I had been faced by my own reflection in the depths of a somber and immense ...

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, 1985

The Secret Sharer: Including screenplay by Peter Fudakowski

Thesecond mate's door was on the hook, butthe darkness in there was absolutely soundless. He, too,was youngand could sleep likeastone. Remained the steward , but he wasnot likely to wake up beforehe wascalled. I got a sleeping suit out ...

Joseph Conrad, Peter Fudakowski, 2014

Twentieth Century Short Stories

I got a sleeping-suit out of my room and, coming back on deck, saw the naked man from the sea sitting on the main-hatch, glimmering white in the darkness, his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands. ID a moment he had concealed ...

Douglas R. Barnes, R. F. Egford, 1999

Master Detective: The Life and Crimes of Ellis Parker, ...

The felony the state had claimed was grand larceny for the theft of the child's sleeping suit. Rosecrans argued there had been no intent to steal the sleeping suit because it had been returned. Besides, at most taking the sleeping suit could  ...

John Reisinger, 2007

Wiley AP English Literature and Composition

I got a sleeping suit out of my room and, coming back on deck, saw the naked man from the sea sitting on the main hatch, glimmering white in the darkness, his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands. In a moment he had concealed his ...

Geraldine Woods, 2013