slumber
/ˈslʌmbə
/literary
verb [no object]
Sleep: Sleeping Beauty slumbered in her forest castle figurative the village street slumbered under the afternoon sun...
- 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.
- So to the ones who have passed on, rest there, sleep there, slumber on.
- 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 (often slumbers)
A sleep: scaring folk from their slumbers...
- And what kind of sleep do you get when you've hit the snooze alarm and faded back to slumbers?
- But when it emerges from its slumbers, it is likely to change the rest of your life.
- 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.
Synonyms
sleep, nap, doze, rest, siesta, drowse, catnap;
beauty sleep
informal snooze, forty winks, a bit of shut-eye
British informal kip, zizz
Derivatives
slumberer
- Moreover, their sleep patterns were different than those of modern slumberers.
- 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.
slumberous
- 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.