Words / B1

SLEEP-ohv-uh/ˈsliːpəʊvə/

A sleepover is a night when children (or sometimes teens) stay at a friend’s house and sleep there. A lie-in is extra time in your own bed in the morning; a sleepover is about whose house you are in. Have a sleepover; go to a sleepover. Countable.

Meaning

A night when children stay at a friend’s house.

Examples

• “She is having a sleepover at her cousin’s on Friday.”
• “No sleepover on a school night; they will be exhausted at breakfast.”
• “She packed a toothbrush and a teddy for the sleepover.”

Good to know

a sleepover. Contrast: a lie-in (late morning in your own bed). have / go to a sleepover.

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