Slumber

/ˈslʌm.bə/ · noun

Meaning

A very light state of sleep, almost awake..

Definitions by Sense

1. A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
2. (figurative) A state of ignorance or inaction.
3. (rare, as used by Magnavox clock radios) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
4. (intransitive) To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
5. (intransitive) To be inactive or negligent.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To lay to sleep.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To stun; to stupefy.

Example Sentences

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

Ev’n Luſt and Envy ſleep, yet Love denies / Reſt to my Soul, and ſlumber to my Eyes.

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

Marcel Duchamp's urinal and readymades seemed in the beginning to be insider jokes or jokelike paradoxes meant to awaken people from their aesthetic slumbers.

He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

If Sleep and Death be truly one, ⁠And every spirit’s folded bloom ⁠Thro’ all its intervital gloom In some long trance should slumber on; […]

slumber his conscience

Then vp he tooke the slombred sencelesse corse.

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Word Forms

• slumbers
• slumbre
• slumbering
• slumbered

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