Rip van Winkle vs sleeper

sleeper vs Rip van Winkle

Rip van Winkle and sleeper both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Rip van Winkle	Yes	No	No	No
sleeper	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sleeper is a hypernym of Rip van Winkle; that is, sleeper is a word with a broader meaning than Rip van Winkle:

Rip van Winkle: a person who sleeps a lot
sleeper: a rester who is sleeping

Other hypernyms of Rip van Winkle include slumberer.

Rip van Winkle (noun)	sleeper (noun)
a person who sleeps a lot	an unexpected hit
a person oblivious to social changes	tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
the title character in a story by Washington Irving about a man who sleeps for 20 years and doesn't recognize the world when he wakens	a passenger car that has berths for sleeping
	one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
	a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed
	pajamas with feet; worn by children
	a rester who is sleeping
	an unexpected achiever of success
	a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal

Difference between Rip van Winkle and sleeper

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