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Definition of slumber in English: slumberverb ˈslʌmbəˈsləmbər [no object]literary Sleep. Sleeping Beauty slumbered in her forest castle figurative the village street slumbered under the afternoon sun Example sentencesExamples - I looked across the fields towards the slumbering village.
- She relived her experience in her sleep every time she dared to slumber, and her nights were becoming progressively worse.
- I tried sleeping on the sofa but my grandma led me to the master bedroom and bid me sleep on the bed beside my slumbering grandfather, who was on a mat.
- I want to sleep next to you, so that in slumber I will be holding you and keeping you safe, so that you will never be afraid again.
- So to the ones who have passed on, rest there, sleep there, slumber on.
- They will moor where the original protagonists moored, sleep in the boat where the original characters slumbered, and stay in some of the same pubs and guest-houses.
- I was there approximately two weeks ago before he went into what I call a sleep, slumber, and was able to talk with him and hug him and kiss him and joke with him.
- She had no intention of actually slumbering, just in case she talked in her sleep.
- Eventually she cried herself to sleep again and he held her as she slumbered, the evenness and peacefulness of her breathing seeming to keep his own mind and heart from fear and despair and sorrow.
- The dream faded away as Zack slept on, smiling as he hugged a slumbering Curtis tighter.
- He walked along the moonlit paths in silence, observing in silence the tents and makeshift buildings that housed the slumbering villagers.
- She drifted back down to sleep, the warmth felt like slumber.
- As we made camp well into our fourth night on the road, I curled up into a little ball, pretending to sleep until I was sure all the others were slumbering.
- Looking to the couch she saw Brandon sleeping, one arm slung protectively across a slumbering Danielle.
- To the descendants of Russell, sleep and slumber there.
- How peacefully she slumbered, wrapped in sleep's numbing embrace.
Synonyms sleep, be asleep, doze, rest, take a siesta, nap, take a nap, catnap, drowse sleep like a log/top informal snooze, snatch forty winks, get some shut-eye, be in the land of Nod British informal kip, have a kip, get one's head down, zizz, get some zizz, doss (down) North American informal catch some Zs literary be in the arms of Morpheus
noun ˈslʌmbəˈsləmbər often slumbersliterary A sleep. scaring folk from their slumbers Example sentencesExamples - But when it emerges from its slumbers, it is likely to change the rest of your life.
- That is, by the time punters have awoken from their slumbers ready to meet yet another day in paradise, the sun is high in the sky and the early birds are already lining up tomorrow's worms.
- When Gerry Danagher retired teacher of Skreen awoke from his slumbers one morning a few weeks back he thought he was in a time warp.
- Yet two minutes into the game he was racing down from his seat in the directors' box to the touchline where, in typical vein-bulging fashion, he frantically tried to shake his players out of their slumbers.
- Driediger, worried the honks were interrupting the man's slumbers, went to speak with him.
- When you disturb them by opening the door, they open one eye in a ‘sod off, no way am I leaping and shrieking for the likes of you’ sort of way, and then return to their slumbers.
- Uniquely, sadly, we British love to knock our young artists and, not surprisingly, the tabloids have had a field day as the tired voices of reaction have crawled from their slumbers to pronounce the fire a judgment on false gods.
- In his day, it was not unusual to find the likes of Elgar, Kipling, Lloyd George and a couple of Rockefellers gathered round the breakfast table, having been roused rudely from their slumbers by a bagpiper.
- The Luddite in me has been stirred from his distant slumbers by this recent death, too.
- But the latest fire should serve as yet another wake-up call to the authorities, who appear to have returned to their slumbers since the last fire.
- Luckily, he fell towards the house and was able to rouse the unsuspecting mate from his slumbers by head-butting the wall with his helmet.
- Just when it seemed that the game was slipping away from them, Johnstown roused themselves from their slumbers.
- I think I preferred it when all you could hear in the stadium were the gentle slumbers of the England fans, interspersed with the occasional oppositional song about the IRA.
- Despite her scepticism, she has nonetheless banished me to the camp-cot in the study so that my nocturnal hacking and spluttering won't interfere with her slumbers.
- I am finally forced from my slumbers at a ridiculously early hour when the overwhelming need to take on fresh water and air becomes strong enough to overcome alcohol-induced inertia.
- When I was very young - about 6 or 7 years old - I had this sequence of dreams that kept repeating in my sleepy slumbers.
- What's the key to surviving those long, lonely Arctic slumbers?
- Last week the householders in two estates were roused from their slumbers prior to 7 am by workmen who were asking people to move their cars.
- If you figure it's time the sleeping giant resumed his slumbers, Kerry's your man.
- And what kind of sleep do you get when you've hit the snooze alarm and faded back to slumbers?
Synonyms sleep, nap, doze, rest, siesta, drowse, catnap beauty sleep informal snooze, forty winks, a bit of shut-eye British informal kip, zizz
Derivatives noun literary Moreover, their sleep patterns were different than those of modern slumberers. Example sentencesExamples - Which should leave slumberers in the building's famous ‘sleeping room,’ snoozing merrily on.
- What makes the conundrum of the obtunded slumberer unique is not that his malady is difficult to diagnose.
- These nagging thoughts seem to have driven the slumberer from the warm and comfortable bed.
adjective ˈslʌmb(ə)rəs literary Charlie had almost dozed off into a restless sleep when Richie's voice startled him out of his slumberous state. Example sentencesExamples - A woman with a coy smile and slumberous eyes could gain access to locales and secrets a male counterpart would have to kill for.
- The waking of the wood may mean that the slumbrous dream was not real anyway, that daytime reality has now supervened, replacing defiance with pleasant companionship.
- But when he'd asked, when he'd lifted a hand to my face and looked at me with those slumberous green eyes of his, any logic I'd possessed had crumbled like nothing more than a flimsy, false idol.
- Henry David Thoreau described the song of one species as ‘a slumberous breathing,’ an ‘intenser dream.’
Origin Middle English: alteration of Scots and northern English sloom, in the same sense. The -b- was added for ease of pronunciation. Rhymes Columba, cumber, encumber, Humber, lumbar, lumber, number, outnumber, rumba, umber Definition of slumber in US English: slumberverbˈsləmbərˈsləmbər [no object]literary Sleep. Sleeping Beauty slumbered in her forest castle figurative the village street slumbered under the afternoon sun Example sentencesExamples - I tried sleeping on the sofa but my grandma led me to the master bedroom and bid me sleep on the bed beside my slumbering grandfather, who was on a mat.
- Eventually she cried herself to sleep again and he held her as she slumbered, the evenness and peacefulness of her breathing seeming to keep his own mind and heart from fear and despair and sorrow.
- She relived her experience in her sleep every time she dared to slumber, and her nights were becoming progressively worse.
- I looked across the fields towards the slumbering village.
- I want to sleep next to you, so that in slumber I will be holding you and keeping you safe, so that you will never be afraid again.
- The dream faded away as Zack slept on, smiling as he hugged a slumbering Curtis tighter.
- I was there approximately two weeks ago before he went into what I call a sleep, slumber, and was able to talk with him and hug him and kiss him and joke with him.
- As we made camp well into our fourth night on the road, I curled up into a little ball, pretending to sleep until I was sure all the others were slumbering.
- So to the ones who have passed on, rest there, sleep there, slumber on.
- They will moor where the original protagonists moored, sleep in the boat where the original characters slumbered, and stay in some of the same pubs and guest-houses.
- She had no intention of actually slumbering, just in case she talked in her sleep.
- She drifted back down to sleep, the warmth felt like slumber.
- How peacefully she slumbered, wrapped in sleep's numbing embrace.
- He walked along the moonlit paths in silence, observing in silence the tents and makeshift buildings that housed the slumbering villagers.
- Looking to the couch she saw Brandon sleeping, one arm slung protectively across a slumbering Danielle.
- To the descendants of Russell, sleep and slumber there.
Synonyms sleep, be asleep, doze, rest, take a siesta, nap, take a nap, catnap, drowse
nounˈsləmbərˈsləmbər often slumbersliterary A sleep. scaring folk from their slumbers Example sentencesExamples - When I was very young - about 6 or 7 years old - I had this sequence of dreams that kept repeating in my sleepy slumbers.
- But when it emerges from its slumbers, it is likely to change the rest of your life.
- But the latest fire should serve as yet another wake-up call to the authorities, who appear to have returned to their slumbers since the last fire.
- When Gerry Danagher retired teacher of Skreen awoke from his slumbers one morning a few weeks back he thought he was in a time warp.
- Driediger, worried the honks were interrupting the man's slumbers, went to speak with him.
- Uniquely, sadly, we British love to knock our young artists and, not surprisingly, the tabloids have had a field day as the tired voices of reaction have crawled from their slumbers to pronounce the fire a judgment on false gods.
- If you figure it's time the sleeping giant resumed his slumbers, Kerry's your man.
- That is, by the time punters have awoken from their slumbers ready to meet yet another day in paradise, the sun is high in the sky and the early birds are already lining up tomorrow's worms.
- When you disturb them by opening the door, they open one eye in a ‘sod off, no way am I leaping and shrieking for the likes of you’ sort of way, and then return to their slumbers.
- I am finally forced from my slumbers at a ridiculously early hour when the overwhelming need to take on fresh water and air becomes strong enough to overcome alcohol-induced inertia.
- Luckily, he fell towards the house and was able to rouse the unsuspecting mate from his slumbers by head-butting the wall with his helmet.
- In his day, it was not unusual to find the likes of Elgar, Kipling, Lloyd George and a couple of Rockefellers gathered round the breakfast table, having been roused rudely from their slumbers by a bagpiper.
- Despite her scepticism, she has nonetheless banished me to the camp-cot in the study so that my nocturnal hacking and spluttering won't interfere with her slumbers.
- Yet two minutes into the game he was racing down from his seat in the directors' box to the touchline where, in typical vein-bulging fashion, he frantically tried to shake his players out of their slumbers.
- I think I preferred it when all you could hear in the stadium were the gentle slumbers of the England fans, interspersed with the occasional oppositional song about the IRA.
- Last week the householders in two estates were roused from their slumbers prior to 7 am by workmen who were asking people to move their cars.
- And what kind of sleep do you get when you've hit the snooze alarm and faded back to slumbers?
- Just when it seemed that the game was slipping away from them, Johnstown roused themselves from their slumbers.
- What's the key to surviving those long, lonely Arctic slumbers?
- The Luddite in me has been stirred from his distant slumbers by this recent death, too.
Synonyms sleep, nap, doze, rest, siesta, drowse, catnap
Origin Middle English: alteration of Scots and northern English sloom, in the same sense. The -b- was added for ease of pronunciation. |