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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who is subject to somnambulism; a person who walks in his sleep.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person who walks about in his or her sleep; a sleepwalker.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A person who is subject to somnambulism; one who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. someone who walks about in their sleep

Etymologies

  1. From Latin somnus ("sleep") + ambulō ("to walk"). (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “The poisoned lie, the nasty, gossiping tongue, the brutality of the unkind epigram, the business and social nastiness and treachery of to-day — these are the thrusts and scratches of the red animal when the somnambulist is in charge.”

    The Somnambulists

  • “The poisoned lie, the nasty, gossiping tongue, the brutality of the unkind epigram, the business and social nastiness and treachery of to-day -- these are the thrusts and scratches of the red animal when the somnambulist is in charge.”

    The Somnambulists

  • “Me (wondering if, when I'm napping, I somehow sleepwalk and rescue women from burning buildings, like a kind of somnambulist Superman): 'Look, I -”

    Mistaken Identity

  • “She moped and moved through the office like a somnambulist, doing in hours what it would take any other person minutes to accomplish.”

    Simon & Schuster: Olivia

  • “Whereas some would take a more somnambulist approach, just shrugging the shoulders and thinking how this could be yet another direct to DVD kind of film and sleepwalk through making a trailer for this movie, this trailer embraces its badness in a way that feels like the spirit of Lloyd Kaufman extends well beyond the viscous halls of Troma Entertainment.”

    This Week In Trailers: Trash Humpers, It’s A Wonderful Afterlife, Mega Piranha, Peacock, Casino Jack and the United States of Money | /Film

  • “So he left her to remain in the shop in a waking trance, and went away himself down the street like a somnambulist.”

    Chapter 2

  • “Such must have been Mr. Pike's profundity of passion, that he paused like a somnambulist, actually rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand, and seemed to awaken.”

    CHAPTER XLII

  • “When they found him wandering along the hallways at night, or climbing over giddy roofs, or running in the hills, they decided he was a somnambulist.”

    When the World Was Young

  • “At night, asleep, he lived with the gods in colossal nightmare; and awake, in the day, he went around like a somnambulist, with absent stare, gazing upon the world he had just discovered.”

    Chapter 13

  • “She walked with all the presentiment of a long-time somnambulist directly to the south wall.”

    One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber

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