somnambulist.

A person who experiences sleepwalking.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• a somnambulist’s movements
• an episode involving a somnambulist

On the page

The somnambulist passed the staircase without responding to her name.

He guided the somnambulist away from the open door without treating the episode as a performance.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular somnambulist; plural somnambulists. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.