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slumberers

slumberers is the plural of slumberer.

Meaning of slumberer

Noun

slumberer (plural slumberers)

  1. One who slumbers; a sleeper.
    • His right arm he thrust out towards the east, / Westward his left; th' ends did themselves digest / Into ten lesser strings, these fingers were: / And as a slumberer stretching on his bed, / This way he this, and that way scattered / His other leg, which feet with toes upbear;1633, John Donne, “The Progress of the Soul. Metempsychosis”, in John Carey, editor, John Donne: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, published 1990, First Song, Stanza XV, 141-6, p. 75

Questions about slumberers

What is slumberers the plural of?
Slumberers is the plural of slumberer.

Words near slumberers in the dictionary

  1. slumber'd
  2. slumbercoach
  3. slumbercoaches
  4. slumbered
  5. slumberer
  6. slumberers
  7. slumberest
  8. slumbereth
  9. slumberful
  10. slumbering
  11. slumberingly

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