Definition of Slumber

Slumber

To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze.

To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity.

To lay to sleep.

To stun; to stupefy.

Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.

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Slumber Quotations

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.
Michael Jackson

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
Vaclav Havel

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Thomas Carlyle

I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.
Christina Rossetti

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
William C. Bryant

I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.
Lisa Whelchel

For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber.
Dave Sim

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.
Austin Dobson

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
Ernst Fischer

'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
Isaac Watts

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.
Giuseppe Mazzini

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Slumber Translations

slumber in Dutch is sluimeren, druilen, dutten
slumber in German is schlummern, Schlummer, schlummern
slumber in Italian is dormicchiare, sopore
slumber in Latin is dormio
slumber in Spanish is dormitar, letargo
slumber in Swedish is slumra, slummer

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