slumber Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
    sleep.
    • he didn't get enough sleep last night
    • calm as a child in dreamless slumber
  2. noun a dormant or quiescent state
  3. verb be asleep
    catch some Z's; kip; sleep; log Z's.

WordNet

Slum"ber intransitive verb
Etymology
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.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Slumbered ; present participle & verbal noun Slumbering
Definitions
  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 transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To lay to sleep. R. Wotton.
  2. To stun; to stupefy. Obs. Spenser.
Slum"ber noun
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913