SANDMAN meaning: Brings sleep by sprinkling sand

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General (23 matching dictionaries)

sandman: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sandman, the sandman: Merriam-Webster
sandman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
sandman: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
sandman: Collins English Dictionary
sandman: Vocabulary.com
Sandman, sandman: Wordnik
the sandman: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Sandman, sandman: Wiktionary
sandman: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
sandman: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
sandman: Infoplease Dictionary
sandman: Dictionary.com
sandman: Online Etymology Dictionary
sandman: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Sandman: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
sandman: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
sandman: Rhymezone
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sandman: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Sandman: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
Sandman (folklore), Sandman (mythical figure), Sandman (mythology), The Sandman (folklore), sandman: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Sandman)

▸ noun:  (folklore) A figure that brings sleep and dreams by sprinkling magical sand into people's eyes.
▸ noun:  Used as a symbol of the passage of time toward death.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A seller of sand.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  Alternative letter-case form of sandman (“folkloric figure sprinkling sand into eyes”). [(folklore) A figure that brings sleep and dreams by sprinkling magical sand into people's eyes.]

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nightmare

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The Sandman, Enter Sandman, The Sandman Universe, Mr. Sandman, Mark Sandman, more...

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horrible, japanese, old, nasty, cruel, little, colored, last

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beige, taupe, sand, khaki, cream, more...

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