Meaning of Slumber | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
2. A very heavy state of sleep.
   broadly
3. A state of ignorance or inaction.
   figuratively
4. The snooze button on an alarm clock.
   rare

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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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