Usually means: Sleeping beyond intended waking time.
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  1. oversleep: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. oversleep: Merriam-Webster
  3. oversleep: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. oversleep: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. oversleep: Collins English Dictionary
  6. oversleep: Vocabulary.com
  7. oversleep: Wordnik
  8. oversleep: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. oversleep: Wiktionary
  10. oversleep: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. oversleep: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. oversleep: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Oversleep, oversleep: Dictionary.com
  14. oversleep: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Oversleep: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. oversleep: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. oversleep: Rhymezone
  18. oversleep: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. oversleep: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. oversleep: FreeDictionary.org
  21. oversleep: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. oversleep: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Oversleep: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See oversleeping as well.)

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verb:  (intransitive) To sleep for longer than intended.
verb:  (reflexive, now rare) To sleep for longer than one intended.
verb:  (transitive) To sleep beyond (a given time), to sleep through (an event etc.).

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