slumber
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English slombren, slomren, frequentative of Middle English slummen, slumen (“to doze”), probably from Middle English slume (“slumber”), from Old English slūma, from Proto-Germanic *slūm- (“slack, loose, limp, flabby”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“loose, limp, flabby”). Cognate with West Frisian slommerje, slûmerje (“to slumber”), Dutch sluimeren (“to slumber”), German schlummern (“to slumber, doze”), Swedish slummer (“to slumber”). By surface analysis, sloom + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: slumbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slumbre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: slumbers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slumbering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slumbered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slumbered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: slumbre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A state of ignorance or inaction.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 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.
gloss: The snooze button on an alarm clock.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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; […]
gloss: To be inactive or negligent.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To lay to sleep.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: slumber his conscience
gloss: To stun; to stupefy.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Then vp he tooke the slombred sencelesse corse.
Related words: catnap
doze
nap
shuteye
slumber party
Derived words: enslumber
slumbercoach
slumber coach
slumberful
slumberland
slumberless
slumberlike
slumberous
slumber room
slumbersome
slumberwear
slumbery
aslumber
slumberer
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: سِنَة
roman: sina
lang: Armenian
word: նինջ
roman: ninǰ
lang: Armenian
word: նիրհ
roman: nirh
lang: Azerbaijani
word: mürgü
lang: Bulgarian
word: дрямка
roman: drjamka
lang: Danish
word: slummer
lang: Danish
word: blund
lang: Dutch
word: sluimering
lang: Esperanto
word: dormeto
lang: Finnish
word: uinuminen
lang: Finnish
word: torkkuminen
lang: French
word: somnolence
lang: Galician
word: soneira
lang: Galician
word: soneca
lang: Georgian
word: თვლემა
roman: tvlema
lang: Georgian
word: ძილი
roman: ʒili
lang: Georgian
word: რული
roman: ruli
lang: German
word: Halbschlaf
lang: German
word: Schlummer
lang: German
word: Schläfchen
lang: Greek
word: υπνηλία
roman: ypnilía
lang: Greek
word: νύστα
roman: nýsta
lang: Hebrew
word: תְּנוּמָה
roman: tnumá
lang: Hungarian
word: félálom
lang: Italian
word: sonnolenza
lang: Italian
word: dormiveglia
lang: Central Kurdish
word: وەنەوز
roman: wenewz
lang: Central Kurdish
word: خەوەنوچکە
roman: xewenuçke
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: hînişk
lang: Norwegian
word: slumre
lang: Norwegian
word: dorme
lang: Persian
word: پینکی
roman: pinaki
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Schlop (nds)
lang: Polish
word: drzemka
lang: Portuguese
word: pestana
lang: Portuguese
word: soneca
lang: Portuguese
word: cochilo
lang: Russian
word: сон
roman: son
lang: Russian
word: дрёма
roman: drjóma
lang: Sanskrit
word: निद्रा
roman: nidrā
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: drijémež
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: drijȇm
lang: Slovene
word: dremež
lang: Spanish
word: adormecimiento
lang: Spanish
word: adormilamiento
lang: Swedish
word: slummer