SNOOZE

nap, catnap, light sleep, short sleep, forty winks, snooze

(noun) sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)

snooze, drowse, doze

(verb) sleep lightly or for a short period of time

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

snooze (third-person singular simple present snoozes, present participle snoozing, simple past and past participle snoozed)

(intransitive) To sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze.

(transitive) To pause; to postpone for a short while.

Noun

snooze (plural snoozes)

A brief period of sleep; a nap.

Synonym: Thesaurus:sleep

(informal) The snooze button on an alarm clock.

(informal) Something boring.

Anagrams

• ozones

Source: Wiktionary


Snooze, n. Etym: [Scot. snooze to sleep; cf. Dan. & Sw. snus snuff.]

Definition: A short sleep; a nap. [Colloq.]

Snooze, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Snoozed; p. pr. & vb. n. Snoozing.]

Definition: To doze; to drowse; to take a short nap; to slumber. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

15 April 2025

DOOMED

(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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