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slumbre

slumbre is the obsolete spelling 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.

See all 8 meanings of slumber

Forms of slumbre

Noun
pluralslumbres
Verb
third-person singular presentslumbres
present participleslumbring
past participleslumbred
pastslumbred

Questions about slumbre

What is slumbre the obsolete spelling of?
Slumbre is the obsolete spelling of slumber.

Words near slumbre in the dictionary

  1. slumberousness
  2. slumbers
  3. slumbersome
  4. slumberwear
  5. slumbery
  6. slumbre
  7. slumbred
  8. slumbres
  9. slumbring
  10. slumbrous
  11. slumbrously

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