Definitions for slumber

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slumber slum·ber

Spelling: [sluhm-ber]

IPA: /ˈslʌm bər/

Slumber is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in slumber (belmrsu).

Definitions for slumber

noun

1. Sometimes, slumbers. sleep, especially light sleep.
2. a period of sleep, especially light sleep.
3. a state of inactivity, quiescence, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to spend or pass (time) in slumbering (often followed by away, out, or through):
2. to dispel or forget by slumbering (often followed by away):

verb (used without object)

1. to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
2. to be in a state of inactivity, negligence, quiescence, or calm:

Origin of slumber

1175-1225; (v.) Middle English slumeren, frequentative of slumen to doze, derivative of Old English slūma sleep (see -er⁶); compare German schlummern; (noun)

Examples for slumber

But slumber would not come; for hours and hours he vainly sought it.

Paul and McCain do not exactly have a history of slumber parties and hair-braiding.

They were rather of the sort that closes solemnly in slumber with majestic effect.

More than one-quarter of Americans are stealing those precious hours from their slumber, and are paying a steep price for it.

All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.

We need a great leader to wake us from our slumber and remind us that a two-state solution is urgently in our own interest.

Budding doctors, actors, stock traders, lawyers, and writers all had a slumber party Wednesday night.

I fell asleep, and dreams of warmth and sweet scents lulled me in my slumber.

The lady had fallen into a slumber, and the whisper was too low to awake her.

Coffin: A final resting place for corpses, and for daytime slumber for vampires.