somnambulist
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
somnambulist (plural somnambulists)
- A person who walks about in his or her sleep; a sleepwalker.
- 1977, William Weaver (translator), Italo Calvino (author), The Castle of Crossed Destinies (first published 1969), part 2, chapter 5, 1969
- He must have promptly rejected an alternative explanation which would better fulfill the demands of verisimilitude (“My wife, poor thing, in her nervous condition, now is afflicted also with sleepwalking!”), seeing the laborious tasks to which the resumed somnambulist devotes herself: kneeling at the edge of a pit, she anoints the earth with murky philters (unless the implements she holds in her hand are to be interpreted actually as acetylene torches scattering sparks, to melt the lead seals of a coffin).
- 1977, William Weaver (translator), Italo Calvino (author), The Castle of Crossed Destinies (first published 1969), part 2, chapter 5, 1969
- French: somnambule
- German: Schlafwandler
- Italian: sonnambulo
- Portuguese: sonâmbulo, sonâmbula
- Russian: луна́тик
- Spanish: sonámbulo
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