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• Sleeping Beauty
  1. the main character in a FAIRY TALE called Sleeping Beauty, who is a princess who lives in a castle. An evil FAIRY makes the princess and everyone else in the castle fall asleep for ever. After a hundred years, a prince finds Sleeping Beauty and kisses her, and then she and everyone else in the castle wakes up. There is a BALLET with music by Tchaikovsky based on this story.
  2. someone who seems to be sleeping peacefully
• sleeping accommodation (noun)
  1. a room used primarily for sleeping
• sleeping around (noun)
  1. casual and indiscriminate indulging in promiscuous sexual relations
• sleeping bag (noun)
  1. a large warm bag that you sleep in, especially when camping
• sleeping beauty (noun)
  1. a person who is sleeping soundly
  2. a potential takeover target that has not yet been put in play
• sleeping capsule (noun)
  1. or tablet or capsule a soporific drug in the form of a pill
• sleeping car (noun)
  1. a railway carriage with beds for passengers to sleep in [=  sleeper]
• sleeping draught (noun)
  1. or tablet or capsule a soporific drug in the form of a pill
• sleeping hibiscus (noun)
  1. any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers
• sleeping partner (noun)
  1. someone who owns part of a business but is not actively involved in running it [=  silent partner American English]
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