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单词 noctambulist
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Definition of noctambulist in English:

noctambulist

noun nɒkˈtambjʊlɪstnɑkˈtæmbjələst
rare
  • A sleepwalker.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For nearly two years I had been going about my life a virtual somnambulist (noctambulist, if you prefer).
    • It's still stranger to imagine legions of English noctambulists marching into moonlit fields to chant Dryden and Pope; but the implication of Wordsworth's scenario is that anyone undertaking the experiment would soon see the superiority of the night sky to the painted firmament of Augustan poetry.
    • Why does a noctambulist walk about mechanically and sometimes in dangerous places (as on high roofs)?

Derivatives

  • noctambulism

  • noun nɒkˈtambjʊlɪz(ə)mnɑkˈtæmbjəˌlɪzəm
    rare
    • Curatives for noctambulism can incorporate medication, luminance treatment, lasting positive air passage pressure level gear, plus, in addition, routine sleep times or a much better durability mattress.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Noctambulism can be short-term maybe even long-term and may well be deriving from a stressful environment, a underlying health care and/or psychiatric disturbance for instance depressive syndrome, a deprivation perhaps even suboptimal repose/good health routines.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Latin nox, noct- 'night' + ambulare 'to walk' + -ist.

Rhymes

funambulist, somnambulist
 
 

Definition of noctambulist in US English:

noctambulist

nounnɑkˈtæmbjələstnäkˈtambyələst
rare
  • A sleepwalker.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For nearly two years I had been going about my life a virtual somnambulist (noctambulist, if you prefer).
    • It's still stranger to imagine legions of English noctambulists marching into moonlit fields to chant Dryden and Pope; but the implication of Wordsworth's scenario is that anyone undertaking the experiment would soon see the superiority of the night sky to the painted firmament of Augustan poetry.
    • Why does a noctambulist walk about mechanically and sometimes in dangerous places (as on high roofs)?

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Latin nox, noct- ‘night’ + ambulare ‘to walk’ + -ist.

 
 
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