slumber
(noun) a dormant or quiescent state
sleep, slumber
(noun) a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; “he didn’t get enough sleep last night”; “calm as a child in dreamless slumber”
sleep, kip, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z's
(verb) be asleep
Source: WordNet® 3.1
slumber (plural slumbers)
A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
(figurative) A state of ignorance or inaction.
slumber (third-person singular simple present slumbers, present participle slumbering, simple past and past participle slumbered)
(intransitive) To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
(intransitive) To be inactive or negligent.
(transitive, obsolete) To lay to sleep.
(transitive, obsolete) To stun; to stupefy.
• Blumers, Bulmers, Rumbles, lumbers, rumbles, slumbre, umbrels
Source: Wiktionary
Slum"ber, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slumbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Slumbering.] Etym: [OE. slombren, slumberen, slumeren, AS. slumerian, fr. sluma slumber; akin to D. sluimeren to slumber, MHG. slummern, slumen, G. schlummern, Dan. slumre, Sw. slumra, Goth. slawan to be silent.]
1. To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze. Piers Plowman. He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Ps. cxxi. 4.
2. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity. "Why slumbers Pope" Young.
Slum"ber, v. t.
1. To lay to sleep. [R.] Wotton.
2. To stun; to stupefy. [Obs.] Spenser.
Slum"ber, n.
Definition: Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose. He at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night. Bunyan. Fast asleep It is no matter; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. Shak. Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 December 2024
(noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
