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Nap   /næp/   Listen
Nap

noun
1.
A period of time spent sleeping.  Synonym: sleep.  "There wasn't time for a nap"
2.
A soft or fuzzy surface texture.
3.
The yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave.  Synonym: pile.
4.
Sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed).  Synonyms: cat sleep, catnap, forty winks, short sleep, snooze.
5.
A card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes.  Synonym: Napoleon.
verb
(past & past part. napped; pres. part. napping)
1.
Take a siesta.  Synonyms: catch a wink, catnap.



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"Nap" Quotes from Famous Books



... exclaimed Mrs Major Negus, jumping up in a fright from the comfortable nap which she had been taking in a lean-back chair on the poop; "where is that unhappy boy? He'll be the ...
— The Wreck of the Nancy Bell - Cast Away on Kerguelen Land • J. C. Hutcheson
... Mallowe on the 2d. I want you to help me to take care of people and keep them from boring me and one another, though I don't mind their boring one another half so much as I mind their boring me. I want to be able to go off and take my nap at any hour I choose. I will not entertain people. What you can do is to lead them off to gather things of look at church ...
— Emily Fox-Seton - Being The Making of a Marchioness and The Methods of Lady Walderhurst • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... His nap had probably lasted a good while, when the cup chanced to graze against a rock, and, in consequence, immediately resounded and reverberated through its golden or brazen substance, a hundred times as loudly as ever you heard a church-bell. The noise awoke Hercules, who instantly started ...
— The Three Golden Apples - (From: "A Wonder-Book For Girls and Boys") • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... Margaret was there or not. In fact, I did not care about anything. Let George marry whoever he pleased. If I should die Margaret Temple had promised to take care of Bernard. Everything was settled, and there was no sense in making any more plans. So I got ready for another nap, and when Bernard came up I told him I had a headache, and ...
— John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein • Frank R. Stockton
... Christian has sent those vagabonds away," thought the sculptor, as he resumed his interrupted nap; "who could it be? Donatello has his own rooms in the tower; Stella, Tomaso, and the cook are a world's width off; and I fancied myself the only inhabitant in this part of ...
— The Marble Faun, Volume II. - The Romance of Monte Beni • Nathaniel Hawthorne


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