seven sleepern.

(in sense 1a)Brit.

/ˌsɛvn ˈsliːpə/, U.S.

/ˌsɛvən ˈslipər/ (in sense 2 also)Brit.

/ˈsɛvn ˌsliːpə/, U.S.

/ˈsɛvən ˌslipər/

Forms: see seven adj. and n. and sleeper n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; originally modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: seven adj., sleeper n.

Etymology: < seven adj. + sleeper n., in sense 1 after post-classical Latin septem dormientes (6th cent.) seven sleepers.Compare German Siebenschläfer person who sleeps often and for a long time (17th cent.), (edible) dormouse (18th cent.; 15th cent. in as †die Sübensleffer (plural) in sense 1a).

a. In plural. With the. Seven youths of Ephesus who, according to early Christian legend, fell asleep in a cave while fleeing from the persecution of the emperor Decius (249–51) and awoke several hundred years later under the reign of the Christian emperor Theodosius II (408–50).

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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > one who sleeps or is asleep > specific

seven sleepersOE

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Corpus Cambr. 188) xvi. 534 Ða seofan slæperas..slepon on ðam timan fram Decies dagum ðæs deofollican caseres, oð Theodosies timan.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 83 (MED) Þe seven slepers bygonne to slepe in þe hille Mont Celius and sleep so two hondred ȝere and arisen aboute þe laste ende of Theodorius.

a1475 (?1445) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 370 Make us to study þe seuen slepars.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 11 The forty yeares vndermeale of the seauen sleepers.

1641 J. Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 7 The seven Sleepers, that slept..three hundred seaventy, and two years.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) III. xxxiii. 350 The memorable fable of the Seven Sleepers.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iv. 12/1 A peal of laughter, enough to have awakened the Seven Sleepers!

1969 H. A. R. Gibb Islam (1989) iii. 28 The stories of Joseph and John the Baptist,..the Seven Sleepers, and other figures from apocryphal tradition and the Alexander-legend.

2008 Res: Anthropol. & Aesthetics No. 53–54. 212/2 A series of holy names (starting with Allah and Muhammad, and often ending with the Seven Sleepers and their dog) would be placed within large medallions.

†b. figurative. A person who is unaware of or inattentive to current events; a person who remains oblivious to moments of historical import. Obsolete.

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1671 J. Glanvill Further Discov. Stubbe 30 I thought there was something in 't, that you now publish him for a Seven Sleeper, that knows not the Transactions of the Learned World.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. i. 144 But in seasons of Revolution,..your miraculous Seven-sleeper might, with miracle enough, awake sooner.

1927 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Magic Mountain (1969) vii. 711 Then came the Serajevo murder, for everyone excepting German Seven-Sleepers a storm signal.

a. In plural. A group of migratory bird species that were formerly presumed to hibernate in winter (now historical). Also: (a traditional grouping of) animals that hibernate.Seven specific kinds of bird or animal are sometimes listed, though with many variations. Edward Jones (see quot. 1802) gives a traditional Welsh list as including the dormouse, hedgehog, tortoise, snake, toad, bat, and bear (cf. the North American list in quot. 1976).

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the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > migrating animal

seven sleepers1750

migrater1770

visitant1774

winterer1831

visiter1843

visitor1859

immigrant1880

1750 J. Campbell Exact & Authentic Acct. Greatest White-Herring-Fishery 7 As none of these Birds are to be seen here in the Winter, I imagine they fly to these Northern Parts, where they lie dormant under Ground till the Summer Season, when they return again; and, consequently, they must be one of those Birds called the Seven Sleepers.

1802 E. Jones Bardic Museum 53 Some reckon the Swallow one of the seven sleepers, but it is more probably one of the emigrating birds, or birds of passage.

1828 J. Jennings Ornithologia 82 The Cuckoo was called in Somersetshire, when I was a boy..one of the seven sleepers.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Why, leathern birds be zaeb·m-zlai·purz, and zo be bees.

1897 Zoologist 1 144 On the Dorset coast I was told that the Wheatear was one of the seven sleepers.

1976 Scouting Nov. 42/3 Those aptly named Seven Sleepers, animals that sleep through the winter, are bats, bears, chipmunks, jumping mice, raccoons, skunks, and woodchucks.

b. In singular. An animal that hibernates, or is thought to do so; spec. (in the British Isles) a dormouse, (in North America) a jumping mouse. Formerly also in plural with singular agreement. Now chiefly historical.The explanation in quot. 2007 is a later rationalization of the name.

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the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > hibernating animal

winter sleeper1600

seven sleeper1799

winterer1905

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Zapodidae (jumping-mouse)

seven sleeper1799

jumping-mouse1839

deer-mouse1840

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Gliridae > genus Muscardinus (dormouse)

dormousec1425

filbert-mouse1607

nut-mouse1607

sleeper1693

rellmouse1747

muscardin1774

seven sleeper1854

1799 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 4 122 In the vicinity of Philadelphia, the Dipus Americanus [i.e. the jumping mouse, Zapus hudsonius] is called, by some persons, the Seven-Sleepers.

1854 M. B. Howitt Midsummer Flowers 217 A seven sleeper, you must understand, is a kind of very little squirrel, not much bigger than a mouse.

1873 W. P. Williams & W. A. Jones Gloss. Somersetshire Seven-sleeper, dormouse.

1882 F. W. P. Jago Anc. Lang. & Dial. Cornwall 261 Seven-sleeper, or Sound-sleeper. A speckled moth (Ermine moth,) is so called in Cornwall.

1908 B. Lindsay in Victoria Hist. County of Hereford I. 154/1 (note) A dormouse is locally called ‘A Seven-Sleeper’.

2007 National Trust Mag. Autumn 79/1 The word hibernation usually brings to mind..the dormouse, also known as the ‘seven sleeper’ because of its habit of shutting down for that number of months every year.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	seven sleeper
释义	seven sleepern. (in sense 1a)Brit. /ˌsɛvn ˈsliːpə/, U.S. /ˌsɛvən ˈslipər/ (in sense 2 also)Brit. /ˈsɛvn ˌsliːpə/, U.S. /ˈsɛvən ˌslipər/ Forms: see seven adj. and n. and sleeper n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; originally modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: seven adj., sleeper n. Etymology: < seven adj. + sleeper n., in sense 1 after post-classical Latin septem dormientes (6th cent.) seven sleepers.Compare German Siebenschläfer person who sleeps often and for a long time (17th cent.), (edible) dormouse (18th cent.; 15th cent. in as †die Sübensleffer (plural) in sense 1a). 1. a. In plural. With the. Seven youths of Ephesus who, according to early Christian legend, fell asleep in a cave while fleeing from the persecution of the emperor Decius (249–51) and awoke several hundred years later under the reign of the Christian emperor Theodosius II (408–50). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > one who sleeps or is asleep > specific seven sleepersOE OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Corpus Cambr. 188) xvi. 534 Ða seofan slæperas..slepon on ðam timan fram Decies dagum ðæs deofollican caseres, oð Theodosies timan. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 83 (MED) Þe seven slepers bygonne to slepe in þe hille Mont Celius and sleep so two hondred ȝere and arisen aboute þe laste ende of Theodorius. a1475 (?1445) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 370 Make us to study þe seuen slepars. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 11 The forty yeares vndermeale of the seauen sleepers. 1641 J. Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 7 The seven Sleepers, that slept..three hundred seaventy, and two years. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) III. xxxiii. 350 The memorable fable of the Seven Sleepers. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iv. 12/1 A peal of laughter, enough to have awakened the Seven Sleepers! 1969 H. A. R. Gibb Islam (1989) iii. 28 The stories of Joseph and John the Baptist,..the Seven Sleepers, and other figures from apocryphal tradition and the Alexander-legend. 2008 Res: Anthropol. & Aesthetics No. 53–54. 212/2 A series of holy names (starting with Allah and Muhammad, and often ending with the Seven Sleepers and their dog) would be placed within large medallions. †b. figurative. A person who is unaware of or inattentive to current events; a person who remains oblivious to moments of historical import. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1671 J. Glanvill Further Discov. Stubbe 30 I thought there was something in 't, that you now publish him for a Seven Sleeper, that knows not the Transactions of the Learned World. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. i. 144 But in seasons of Revolution,..your miraculous Seven-sleeper might, with miracle enough, awake sooner. 1927 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Magic Mountain (1969) vii. 711 Then came the Serajevo murder, for everyone excepting German Seven-Sleepers a storm signal. 2. a. In plural. A group of migratory bird species that were formerly presumed to hibernate in winter (now historical). Also: (a traditional grouping of) animals that hibernate.Seven specific kinds of bird or animal are sometimes listed, though with many variations. Edward Jones (see quot. 1802) gives a traditional Welsh list as including the dormouse, hedgehog, tortoise, snake, toad, bat, and bear (cf. the North American list in quot. 1976). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > migrating animal seven sleepers1750 migrater1770 visitant1774 winterer1831 visiter1843 visitor1859 immigrant1880 1750 J. Campbell Exact & Authentic Acct. Greatest White-Herring-Fishery 7 As none of these Birds are to be seen here in the Winter, I imagine they fly to these Northern Parts, where they lie dormant under Ground till the Summer Season, when they return again; and, consequently, they must be one of those Birds called the Seven Sleepers. 1802 E. Jones Bardic Museum 53 Some reckon the Swallow one of the seven sleepers, but it is more probably one of the emigrating birds, or birds of passage. 1828 J. Jennings Ornithologia 82 The Cuckoo was called in Somersetshire, when I was a boy..one of the seven sleepers. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Why, leathern birds be zaeb·m-zlai·purz, and zo be bees. 1897 Zoologist 1 144 On the Dorset coast I was told that the Wheatear was one of the seven sleepers. 1976 Scouting Nov. 42/3 Those aptly named Seven Sleepers, animals that sleep through the winter, are bats, bears, chipmunks, jumping mice, raccoons, skunks, and woodchucks. b. In singular. An animal that hibernates, or is thought to do so; spec. (in the British Isles) a dormouse, (in North America) a jumping mouse. Formerly also in plural with singular agreement. Now chiefly historical.The explanation in quot. 2007 is a later rationalization of the name. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > hibernating animal winter sleeper1600 seven sleeper1799 winterer1905 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Zapodidae (jumping-mouse) seven sleeper1799 jumping-mouse1839 deer-mouse1840 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Gliridae > genus Muscardinus (dormouse) dormousec1425 filbert-mouse1607 nut-mouse1607 sleeper1693 rellmouse1747 muscardin1774 seven sleeper1854 1799 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 4 122 In the vicinity of Philadelphia, the Dipus Americanus [i.e. the jumping mouse, Zapus hudsonius] is called, by some persons, the Seven-Sleepers. 1854 M. B. Howitt Midsummer Flowers 217 A seven sleeper, you must understand, is a kind of very little squirrel, not much bigger than a mouse. 1873 W. P. Williams & W. A. Jones Gloss. Somersetshire Seven-sleeper, dormouse. 1882 F. W. P. Jago Anc. Lang. & Dial. Cornwall 261 Seven-sleeper, or Sound-sleeper. A speckled moth (Ermine moth,) is so called in Cornwall. 1908 B. Lindsay in Victoria Hist. County of Hereford I. 154/1 (note) A dormouse is locally called ‘A Seven-Sleeper’. 2007 National Trust Mag. Autumn 79/1 The word hibernation usually brings to mind..the dormouse, also known as the ‘seven sleeper’ because of its habit of shutting down for that number of months every year. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.OE
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