"beauty sleep" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈbjuːti ˌsliːp/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈbjuti ˌslip/ [General-American] Audio: En-au-beauty sleep.ogg [Australia] Forms: beauty sleeps [plural]
Etymology: From beauty (noun) + sleep (noun). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*dew-|*sleh₁‑}}, {{compound|en|beauty|sleep|pos1=noun|pos2=noun}} beauty (noun) + sleep (noun) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} beauty sleep (countable and uncountable, plural beauty sleeps)
  1. (uncountable) Originally, sleep taken before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce to beauty and health; now (chiefly humorous), sleep at any time needed by one to stay beautiful; (countable) an instance of such sleep. Tags: idiomatic, uncountable Categories (topical): Appearance, Sleep Translations (originally, sleep taken before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce to beauty and health; now, sleep at any time needed by one to stay beautiful; an instance of such sleep): kauneusunet [plural] (Finnish), sono da beleza [masculine] (Portuguese), skönhetssömn [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-beauty_sleep-en-noun-JmfjqmK9 Disambiguation of Appearance: 87 13 Disambiguation of Sleep: 50 50 Disambiguation of 'originally, sleep taken before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce to beauty and health; now, sleep at any time needed by one to stay beautiful; an instance of such sleep': 94 6
  2. (uncountable, chiefly humorous) Extra sleep; also (generally), any sleep; (countable) an instance of this; an extra nap. Tags: humorous, idiomatic, uncountable Categories (topical): Sleep Synonyms: beauty rest Translations (extra sleep; an instance of this): kauneusunet [plural] (Finnish), roupillon (French), sommeil réparateur [masculine] (French), Schönheitsschlaf [masculine] (German), skönhetssömn [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-beauty_sleep-en-noun-JxWlwWcY Disambiguation of Sleep: 50 50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 39 61 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 30 70 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 40 60 Disambiguation of 'extra sleep; an instance of this': 19 81
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: beauty-sleep Related terms: Sleeping Beauty

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