Meanings
nounnoctambule (plural noctambules)
plural noctambules
- Synonym of noctambulist
He says, all are mad, foolish, dreaming, Noctambules, fit patients for Monroe.
1825, Robert Plumer Ward, Tremaine, page 3451 more example
A few moments later saw our two noctambules safely seated in a distant corner […].
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 577Synonyms: noctambulist
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of noctambulist
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Origin
- New Latinnoctambulus“sleepwalker”
- Frenchnoctambule
- Englishnoctambule
From French noctambule, from New Latin noctambulus (“sleepwalker”).
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noctambule. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noctambule
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“noctambule.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noctambule. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “noctambule,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noctambule.
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