slumber

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Royaume-Uni//ˈslʌm.bə//
États-Unis//ˈslʌm.bɚ//
//ˈslʊm.bə//

A very light state of sleep, almost awake.

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A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
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.
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A very light state of sleep, almost awake. A very heavy state of sleep.
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figuréA state of ignorance or inaction.
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.
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rareThe snooze button on an alarm clock.

Étymologie

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.

verbe

1
To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
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; […]
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To be inactive or negligent.
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obsolèteTo lay to sleep.
slumber his conscience
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obsolèteTo stun; to stupefy.
Then vp he tooke the slombred sencelesse corse.

Formes

pluriel: slumbers
passé: slumbered
participe passé: slumbered
participe présent: slumbering
3ᵉ personne du singulier: slumbers

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slumber · A very light state of sleep, almost awake.

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