NOUN
- a person who sleeps a lot
- 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 person oblivious to social changes
How To Use Rip van Winkle In A Sentence
- Rip Van Winkle, a kindly, lazy, henpecked man, set out for a remote part of the Catskill Mountains.
- I doubt we'll get any rain out of it, but I like to listen to Rip Van Winkle and the boys playing ninepins all the same.
- Does anyone here know Rip Van Winkle?
- This is the opinion of some Rip Van Winkle.
- Come on, Rip Van Winkle , wake up! It's nearly lunchtime.
- I was more confused by that, so I asked who Rip Van Winkle was.
- In the village there lived a simple, good man named Rip Van Winkle.
- Washington Irving " Rip Van Winkle " , " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- It would no doubt surprise the reader, and no less so our Honorable Secretary of the Navy, should I say that I have seen George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Franklin Pierce, Rip Van Winkle, Allen G. Thurman and Hillary Herbert engaged together in a game of shinney. Naming the Indians
- Said Felix Adler to his hemlock-spruce, "Vivat, crescat, floreat"; and a sentiment much like it was implied in Sol Smith Russell's words to the grove's master as they finished putting in his linden together -- for he was just then proposing to play Rip Van Winkle, which Joseph Jefferson had finally decided to produce no more: "Here's to your healt ', undt der healt' of all your family; may you lif long undt brosper. The Amateur Garden
