sleepwalker

English

Alternative forms
  • sleep-walker

Etymology

From sleep +‎ walker or sleepwalk +‎ -er.

Noun

sleepwalker (plural sleepwalkers)

  1. Someone who walks about in their sleep.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.

Synonyms

Translations
somnambulist — see somnambulist
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