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slum⋅ber

[sluhm-ber]
–verb (used without object)
1. to sleep, esp. lightly; doze; drowse.
2. to be in a state of inactivity, negligence, quiescence, or calm: Vesuvius is slumbering.
–verb (used with object)
3. to spend or pass (time) in slumbering (often fol. by away, out, or through): to slumber the afternoon away.
4. to dispel or forget by slumbering (often fol. by away): to slumber cares away.
–noun
5. Sometimes, slumbers. sleep, esp. light sleep.
6. a period of sleep, esp. light sleep.
7. a state of inactivity, quiescence, etc.

Origin:
1175–1225; (v.) ME slumeren, freq. of slumen to doze, deriv. of OE slūma sleep (see -er 6 ); cf. G schlummern; (n.) ME slomur, slomber, deriv. of the v.


slum⋅ber⋅er, noun
slum⋅ber⋅less, adjective
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Word Origin & History

slumber 
1362, alteration of slumeren (c.1220), freq. form of slumen "to doze," probably from O.E. sluma "light sleep" (cf. M.Du. slumen, Du. sluimeren, Ger. schlummern "to slumber"). Frequentative on the notion of "intermittent light sleep." The noun is attested from c.1386. Slumber party first recorded 1942.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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