English Explanatory Dictionary

Rip Van Winkle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A Dutch-American villager who falls asleep for 20 years and wakes up to a changed world, having missed the American Revolution; (by extension) someone or something stuck in the past.

Pronunciation

/ˌrɪp van ˈwɪŋk(ə)l/

Word forms

Rip Van Winkle

Etymology

From The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent by Washington Irving (1819).

Derived words

Rip Van Winkledom Rip Van Winkleish Rip Van Winklesque
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