RIP VAN WINKLE meaning: Man sleeps through twenty years

We found 19 dictionaries that define the word Rip Van Winkle:

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rip van winkle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Rip van Winkle, Rip van Winkle: Merriam-Webster
Rip Van Winkle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
Rip Van Winkle: Collins English Dictionary
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Rip Van Winkle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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Rip Van Winkle: Online Etymology Dictionary
Rip Van Winkle (disambiguation), Rip Van Winkle (horse), Rip Van Winkle (operetta), Rip Van Winkle, Rip van Winkle (Hellsing), Rip van Winkle, Rip van winkle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Rip van winkle: Rhymezone
Rip van Winkle: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
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rip van winkle: Mnemonic Dictionary
Rip Van Winkle: TheFreeDictionary.com
Rip Van Winkle: Wiktionary

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Van Winkle, Rip, Winkle, Rip Van: Encyclopedia

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rip van winkle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Rip Van Winkle: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Rip Van Winkle)

▸ noun: (fiction, US) A Dutch-American villager who falls asleep for 20 years and wakes up to a changed world, having missed the American Revolution; (by extension) someone or something stuck in the past.

Opposite:

insomniac, alert, awake, vigilant, attentive

Types:

sleeper, compatient, more...

Phrases:

Old Rip Van Winkle, The Rip Van Winkle Caper, Rip Van Winkle Bridge, more...

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