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Meanings of snooze in English

Portuguese
sesta
Catalan
rebeca
Spanish
sueñecito

A short period of sleep, especially one during the day time.

sesta
Portuguese
dormitar
Catalan
endormiscar-se

Sleep lightly or for a short period of time.

Related terms
dormitar
Usage of snooze in English
1
If you want a good snooze watch the film version of Watchmen.
The Irish Times
2
Alarm lets you set multiple wake times and offers a snooze function.
Wired
3
Rather than calling the Garda, you snooze on until you arrive home.
The Irish Times
4
You see, I had quite a snooze up there in the air.
Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane; Or, Daring Adventures over the...
5
I cannot sleep in the mornings; I cannot snooze peacefully until midday.
The Girl on the Train
6
Francie was aroused from her Sunday afternoon snooze on the drawing-room sofa.
Sisters
7
For my part, I shall be all the better for a snooze.
The Snow Image
8
Sorry I play the music so loudly when you're trying to snooze.
Heir of Fire
9
And then the King settled into a comfy chair for a snooze.
Raising Steam
10
Everything should have a snooze button and TwitterSnooze adds one to Twitter.
Wired
11
The snooze-corner, commonly called a bedroom, lacked one detail of comfort-pureair.
In the Year of Jubilee
12
Her heart skipped a beat as she lunged for the snooze button.
The abduction
13
You snooze in bed, and you send Gafferson-Gafferson!-themud-headof the earth!
The Market-Place
14
This morning I only hit snooze four times: a new record.
The Irish Times
15
She put them on and read the paper, while he took a snooze.
The new yorker
16
The best ones have some tweakable settings for multiple alarms or snooze times.
Wired
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Snooze through the time
Snooze across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common