slumber

[SlumĀ·ber]

Slumber means "sleep" as a verb or noun. If you're a sound sleeper, you might slumber peacefully right through a thunderstorm, your slumber undisturbed.

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To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze.

Noun
a dormant or quiescent state

Noun
a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn''t get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber"

Verb
be asleep


v. i.
To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze.

v. i.
To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity.

v. t.
To lay to sleep.

v. t.
To stun; to stupefy.

n.
Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.


Slumber

Slum"ber , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slumbered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Slumbering.] [OE. slombren, slumberen, slumeren, AS. slumerian, fr. sluma slumber; akin to D. sluimeren to slumber, MHG. slummern, slumen, G. schlummern, Dan. slumre, Sw. slumra, Goth. slawan to be silent.] 1. To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze. Piers Plowman.
He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
2. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity. "Why slumbers Pope?" Young.

Slumber

Slum"ber, v. t. 1. To lay to sleep. [R.] Wotton. 2. To stun; to stupefy. [Obs.] Spenser.

Slumber

Slum"ber, n. Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.
He at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night.
Fast asleep? It is no matter; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.
Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes.

To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze.

To lay to sleep.

Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.

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Usage Examples

My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.

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