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slumbers

slumbers is the plural of slumber.

slumbers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of slumber.

Meaning of slumber

Noun

slumber (plural slumbers)

  1. A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
    • Fast asleep? It is no matter; / Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    1. (broadly) A very heavy state of sleep.
  2. (figuratively) A state of ignorance or inaction.
    • 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.2009, Ben-Ami Scharfstein, Art without borders: a philosophical exploration of art and humanity
  3. (rare) The snooze button on an alarm clock.

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Questions about slumbers

What is slumbers the plural of?
Slumbers is the plural of slumber.

Words near slumbers in the dictionary

  1. slumberlessness
  2. slumberlike
  3. slumberous
  4. slumberously
  5. slumberousness
  6. slumbers
  7. slumbersome
  8. slumberwear
  9. slumbery
  10. slumbre
  11. slumbred

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