Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Sleep; slumber.
  • noun In old French operas, a quiet and tranquilizing air.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Slumber; sleep.

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Examples

  • _C'est le sommeil par la suggestion, c'est l'image du sommeil_ que je suggère, que j'insinue dans le cerveau.

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

  • Je suis très fatiguée = I am very tired le sommeil = sleep la carte de visite = business card

    Books 2010

  • She underwent what was fashionably known in those days as a cure de sommeil, a treatment that involved being pumped so full of tranquilizers she was “in a constant state of somnolence.”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Here's a trailer for Prélude au sommeil (Prelude to Sleep), a new documentary about pioneering electronic musician Jean-Jacques Perrey.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • With each creak, the delicious depths of sleep retreat until I reach the sober surface of sommeil.

    Bon Appétit! 2010

  • She underwent what was fashionably known in those days as a cure de sommeil, a treatment that involved being pumped so full of tranquilizers she was “in a constant state of somnolence.”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • With each creak, the delicious depths of sleep retreat until I reach the sober surface of sommeil.

    Cafés 2010

  • With each creak, the delicious depths of sleep retreat until I reach the sober surface of sommeil.

    Books 2010

  • Je suis très fatiguée = I am very tired le sommeil = sleep la carte de visite = business card

    Cafés 2010

  • Je suis très fatiguée = I am very tired le sommeil = sleep la carte de visite = business card

    Bon Appétit! 2010

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