doze
noun/dəʊz/
/dəʊz/
[singular]- a short period of sleep, usually during the day
- I had a doze on the train.
- Sitting in an armchair in front of the fire, I soon fell into a doze.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- light
- have
- drift into
- fall into
- …
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘stupefy, bewilder, or make drowsy’): perhaps related to Danish døse ‘make drowsy’.Definitions on the go
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