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sleepaway

adjective, noun

sleepaway is an adjective meaning “Of a camp or event in which participants sleep away from home” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-L-E-E-P-A-W-A-Y, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does sleepaway mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of a camp or event in which participants sleep away from home.

noun

  1. 1

    A camp or event in which participants sleep away from home.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of sleepaway

  • sleepaways plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is sleepaway?

Sleepaway appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).