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- Dictionaryslumber/ˈslʌmbə/
verb
- 1. sleep: "Sleeping Beauty slumbered in her forest castle"
noun
- 1. a sleep: "scaring folk from their slumbers"
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noun [ C or U ] literary uk / ˈslʌm.bə r/ us / ˈslʌm.bɚ / Add to word list. sleep: I fell into a gentle slumber. I didn't want to rouse you from your slumbers. figurative Sharp cuts in interest rates have failed to bring the economy out of its slumber. Synonyms. kip UK informal. shuteye informal , old-fashioned in UK. sleep (NOT AWAKE)
To slumber is to sleep, sometimes specifically to sleep lightly or doze. You can slumber in your bed, in your airplane seat, or through your alarm in the morning. Slumber can also describe a peacefulness, like your quiet street that seems to slumber
noun [ C or U ] literary us / ˈslʌm.bɚ / uk / ˈslʌm.bə r/ Add to word list. sleep: I fell into a gentle slumber. I didn't want to rouse you from your slumbers. figurative Sharp cuts in interest rates have failed to bring the economy out of its slumber. Synonyms. kip UK informal. shuteye informal , old-fashioned in UK. sleep (NOT AWAKE)
1. a. : to sleep lightly : doze. b. : sleep. 2. a. : to be in a torpid, slothful, or negligent state. b. : to lie dormant or latent. slumberer. ˈsləm-bər-ər. noun.
to spend or pass (time) in slumbering. to slumber the afternoon away. 4. (often fol. by away) to dispel or forget by slumbering. to slumber cares away. noun. 5. (sometimes slumbers) sleep, esp. light sleep. 6.
Slumber definition: to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.. See examples of SLUMBER used in a sentence.
1. ( intr) to sleep, esp peacefully. 2. ( intr) to be quiescent or dormant. 3. (foll by: away) to spend (time) sleeping. n. 4. ( sometimes plural) sleep. 5. a dormant or quiescent state. [Old English slūma sleep (n); related to Middle High German slummeren, Dutch sluimeren] ˈslumberer n. ˈslumberless adj.
To be dormant, negligent, or inactive. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To pass (time) in sleep. Slumbered the night away. American Heritage. Synonyms: catch-some-zs. log Z's. kip. sleep. noun. slumbers. Sleep. Webster's New World. An inactive state. Webster's New World. Similar definitions.
literary uk / ˈslʌmbə r/ us. Add to word list. sleep: She lay down on the bed and fell into a deep slumber. slumber. verb [ I ] literary. (Definition of slumber from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of slumber. in Chinese (Traditional) 睡覺，睡眠, 睡，睡覺… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 睡觉，睡眠, 睡，睡觉… See more.
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