sleepaway
adjective
sleep·away
ˈslēp-ə-ˌwā 
: providing accommodations for overnight sleep and extended stay away from home
sleepaway camps
Examples of sleepaway in a Sentence
We sent the kids off to sleepaway camp for the week.
Recent Examples on the Web
How these sleepaway camps, wilderness groups, and campgrounds are creating space for LGBTQ+ travelers.
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Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2022
Last year marked the first sleepaway version of the camp, and this summer, two-thirds of last year’s campers returned.
—Anastasia Hufham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 July 2022
As a sleepaway screamer, 1984 is delightfully campy (pun probably intended by the show's powers that be).
—Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 20 July 2022
My dad spent five childhood summers at a sleepaway camp in New England and immediately suggested something similar for me.
—Colleen McKeegan, ELLE, 8 June 2022
Hamdi guided me like a kid showing his parents around his sleepaway camp.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
Except when kids need space to grow a bit, like with sleepaway camps or schools?
—Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
Set at a sleepaway camp in 1978, the second and tighter of the two movies provided for review, which will arrive on Netflix on July 9, owes much to the Jason Voorhees origin story Friday the 13th.
—Judy Berman, Time, 7 July 2021
In Wisconsin, the CDC found that a sleepaway camp was a super spreader event this summer, with one positive case leading to 116 infections.
—Adriana Diaz, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2020
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Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2022
Last year marked the first sleepaway version of the camp, and this summer, two-thirds of last year’s campers returned.
—Anastasia Hufham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 July 2022
As a sleepaway screamer, 1984 is delightfully campy (pun probably intended by the show's powers that be).
—Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 20 July 2022
My dad spent five childhood summers at a sleepaway camp in New England and immediately suggested something similar for me.
—Colleen McKeegan, ELLE, 8 June 2022
Hamdi guided me like a kid showing his parents around his sleepaway camp.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
Except when kids need space to grow a bit, like with sleepaway camps or schools?
—Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
Set at a sleepaway camp in 1978, the second and tighter of the two movies provided for review, which will arrive on Netflix on July 9, owes much to the Jason Voorhees origin story Friday the 13th.
—Judy Berman, Time, 7 July 2021
In Wisconsin, the CDC found that a sleepaway camp was a super spreader event this summer, with one positive case leading to 116 infections.
—Adriana Diaz, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1971, in the meaning defined above
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“Sleepaway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sleepaway. Accessed 1 Dec. 2023.
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