Definitions
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- n. sleepwalking
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Somnambulism; sleepwalking; walking in one's sleep.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Somnambulism; sleep-walking.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. walking by a person who is asleep
Etymologies
Latin nox, noctis, night + ambulare to walk: compare French noctambulation. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Somnambulism, or, as it has been called, noctambulation, is a curious phase of nocturnal cerebration analogous to the hypnotic state, or double consciousness occasionally observed in epileptics.
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Men have employed anxious months in search of that which, in a freak of noctambulation, was hidden by their own hands.
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