Slumber Definition

slŭmbər

slumbered, slumbering, slumbers

verb

slumbered, slumbering, slumbers

To spend in sleeping.

Webster's New World

To sleep.

Webster's New World

To be dormant, negligent, or inactive.

Webster's New World

To pass (time) in sleep.

Slumbered the night away.

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noun

slumbers

Sleep.

Webster's New World

An inactive state.

Webster's New World

A very light state of sleep, almost awake.

He at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night. "” Bunyan.

Fast asleep? It is no matter; / Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. "” Shakespeare.

Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. "” Dryden.

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Other Word Forms of Slumber

Singular:

slumber

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From Middle English slombren, slomren, frequentive of slummen, slumen (“to doze"), probably from slume (“slumber"), from Old English slÅ«ma, from Proto-Germanic *slÅ«m- (“slack, loose, limp, flabby"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“loose, limp, flabby"), equivalent to sloom +"Ž -er. Akin to Middle High German slumen (“to slumber"). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian gjumÃ« (“sleep").

From Wiktionary
Middle English slumeren, slumberen frequentative of slumen to doze probably from slume light sleep from Old English slūma

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition