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# slumber

«slumber» in Mova's school dictionary: **Sleep** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (slumber, slumbers); verb (slumber, slumbers, slumbered, slumbering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (literary) Sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slumber/#m1)

2) (verb, literary) To sleep, often peacefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slumber/#m2)

3) (figurative) A time of being quiet or inactive, like a volcano that has not erupted for years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slumber/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, poems and fairy tales slumber is a gentle, old-fashioned word for sleep — Sleeping Beauty falls into a deep slumber. In everyday talk, «slumber party» is a sleepover (USA). In science, a slumbering volcano is dormant.

### examples

- The princess fell into a deep slumber. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slumber/#x1)
- The baby slumbered peacefully in her cot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slumber/#x2)
- We had a slumber party with pillows and popcorn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slumber/#x3)
- The dog was disturbed from its slumber by the doorbell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slumber/#x4)
- The volcano has slumbered for a hundred years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slumber/#x5)
- "Do not wake the dragon from its slumber," whispered the wizard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slumber/#x6)
- But still his brothers slumber on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slumber/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. Mostly literary; in normal talk say «sleep». «Slumber party» is American for a sleepover.

### In the corpora

- [He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; He that keepeth thee will not slumber.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2353/)
- [Behold, He that keepeth Israel doth neither slumber nor sleep.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2354/)
- [I will not give sleep to mine eyes, nor slumber to mine eyelids;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2435/)
- ['Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep' —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.151/)
- ['Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep' —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.720/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «slumber» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slumber/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.