sleeping meaning
EN
[ˈsliːpɪŋ] [-iːpɪŋ] 
US WSleeping
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FR sleeping 
- NounPLsleepingsSUF-ing
- The state of being asleep, or an instance of this.
- The state of being asleep, or an instance of this.
- Verb
- present participle of sleep.
- ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
- present participle of sleep.
- Adjective
- Asleep.
- Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
- Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.
- Asleep.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- She was sleeping very badly these days, what with the new baby and all the activity surrounding him.
- Tired but satisfied, the children snuggled into their sleeping bags.
- When he upended the bottle of water over his sleeping sister, the lid popped off and surprised them both.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Sleeping in an unfamiliar room can be a trigger for sleepwalking.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Then she is consumed by anxiety when she hears from a storeowner about a nearby bombing that killed four people while she was sleeping.
- He soldiered on through the night, working hard and not sleeping.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of sleeping in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Verb forms
- Participles
- Present participles
- Present participles
- Participles
- Verb forms
- Adjectives
- fr sleeping
- en sleepings
- fr sleepings
- en sleepingly
- en sleeping mat
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "sleeping" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.