Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: slumber
IPA transcription: [sl'ʌmbɚ]
Pronunciations of slumber
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: sleep, slumber
    Meaning: a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber"
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: sleep, kip, slumber, log_Z's, catch_some_Z's
    Meaning: be asleep
Usage examples
  • I fell into a deep and refreshing slumber.
  • But the laughing faces will make you slumber peacefully when the time comes, and give you pleasant dreams, too."
  • To the gaze of Duke, still blurred by slumber, this monstrosity was all of one piece--the bone seemed a living part of it.
  • Elsie lay all night in a profound slumber, and awoke at an early hour the next morning, feeling greatly refreshed and invigorated.
  • With great difficulty I prevailed upon them to lie down, when they fell very soon into a heavy slumber, accompanied with loud stertorous breathing.
  • Smith-Oldwick was dozing against the rocky wall of the cavern entrance, while the girl, exhausted by the excitement and fatigue of the day, had fallen into deep slumber.
  • This good, old quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily under their coverlet.
  • One tempestuous night, Metzengerstein, awaking from a heavy slumber, descended like a maniac from his chamber, and, mounting in hot haste, bounded away into the mazes of the forest.
  • During that terrible conflict between him and his slumber, in which the drowsy god fairly vanquished him for some twenty minutes, his conscience was always accusing him of treating his guests badly.
  • She had sometimes dreams, after weary thinking, between slumber and waking, in which she seemed to fly to some beautiful girl, apparently Lady Aoi, and to engage in bitter contention and struggle with her.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Oriel College, Oxford, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Priapus, License CC BY-SA 4.0