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slumber Definition

slum·ber (slumbər)

intransitive verb

  1. to sleep
  2. to be dormant, negligent, or inactive

Etymology: ME slumeren < OE slumerian < sluma, slumber: for IE base see slug

transitive verb

to spend in sleeping

noun

  1. sleep
  2. an inactive state

slumber Related Forms
slum·berer noun
slumber Synonyms

slumber

n.

sleep, repose, nap, doze; see rest 1, sleep.

slumber Usage Examples

Object

  • squirrel: He took the other end of the seat, lifting the still slumbering squirrel to his knee.
  • giant: For many years like a great slumbering giant, Negroes accepted the status quo.
  • soul: As soon as He entered, He awoke my slumbering soul.

Converse of object

  • disturb: I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.
  • induce: Here you can relax in luxury, surrounded by lush pastures, breathing air that will induce blissful slumber in the most confirmed insomniac.

Adjective modifier

  • dogmatic: Kant said it roused him from his " dogmatic slumber " to write the Critique of pure reason.
  • profound: One afternoon one of these symptoms was strongly manifested in a long, profound slumber.
  • peaceful: For 360 nights you can be assured of peaceful slumbers.
  • deep: Remember none of us likes to be rudely awakened from deep, drunken slumber at the Belfry.
  • long: Not for him the last long slumber under friendly skies.
  • uneasy: As the night advanced both fell into an uneasy slumber.

Modifies a noun

  • party: That's why his slumber party has to be the best.

Modifying Another Word

  • peacefully: VFN549 is parked up and can now slumber peacefully in the yard until Monday morning.
  • still: Old couples still slumber in their cars, in their cardies.
  • all: As the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
  • not: Be silent and free from the pain of speech: do not slumber, Since thou hast taken refuge with so loving a Friend.

Noun used with modifier

  • winter: Imbolc celebrates the life force waking up from its winter slumber.
  • girlie: Babydoll 60's unworn top and knickers set - aqua green and cream lace The must-have sleep set for your girlie slumber party!

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • on: Heart break and toil and suffering gone, The boys beneath them slumber on.
slumber Quotes

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the L, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The L is thy keeper: the L is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moonby night.The L shall preservetheefromallevil: he shall preserve thy soul. The L shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour. Let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou have paid thy utmost blessing.

—de la Mare,Walter

A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course With rocks, and stones and trees.

—Wordsworth,William

Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore Than labour in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar; Oh rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more.

—Tennyson

Through breaks of the cedar and sycamore bowers Struggles the light that is love to the flowers; And, softer than slumber and sweeter than singing, The notes of the bell-birds are running and ringing. The silver-voiced bell-birds, the darlings of daytime! They sing in September their songs of the May-time.

—Kendall, Henry Clarence

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