Somnambulist
[səm'næmbjʊlɪst]
Definition
(n.) A person who is subject to somnambulism; one who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist.
Editor: Verna
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Sleep-walker, night-walker, noctambulist.
Typist: Theodore
Unserious Contents or Definition
To imagine while dreaming that you are a somnambulist, portends that you will unwittingly consent to some agreement of plans which will bring you anxiety or ill fortune.
Inputed by Elsa
Examples
- With those words uttered impetuously, Will rose, put out his hand to Rosamond, still with the air of a somnambulist, and went away. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Or rather than a somnambulist, let us say by a corpse that magically simulates a kind of life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In short, the night's work had so exhausted and worn out this actor in it, that he had become a mere somnambulist. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Typist: Trevor