sleep-away

Or sleep·a·way

[sleep-uh-wey]

adjective

1. of or relating to a place at which one sleeps away from home.

   sleep-away camp.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sleep-away¹

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

At a time when many kids’ summers have become highly programmed — filled with sleep-away camps, academic enrichment and organized sports — surf camp has been seen by many parents as a refreshing throwback.

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Yet it’s not the sort of whimsical performance associated with a sleep-away camp; it is a dramatization of domestic abuse, so triggering to Dot that she passes out.

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Ms. Klein, the mental-health coordinator for a network of sleep-away camps, has a morning routine: responding to queries from anxious parents, who have looked at the photographs posted online the night before.

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So, two days after her son’s murder, she and Beigel’s stepfather, Michael Schulman, started the Scott J. Beigel Memorial Fund, which pays for underprivileged children touched by gun violence to attend sleep-away camp — and return annually if they maintain good grades and stay out of trouble.

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“The Seven Faces of Jane” has eight directors: Julian Acosta, Xan Cassavetes, Gia Coppola, Ryan Heffington, Boma Iluma, Gillian Jacobs, Ken Jeong and Alex Takacs, each of whom was presented with a premise: A woman named Jane drops her daughter off at sleep-away camp and then drives away from her mundane life into an adventure.

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