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slumber
English
Alternative forms
- slumbre (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English slombren, slomren, frequentative of Middle English slummen, slumen (“to doze”), probably from Middle English slume (“slumber”), from Old English sl?ma, from Proto-Germanic *sl?m- (“slack, loose, limp, flabby”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“loose, limp, flabby”), equivalent to sloom +? -er. Cognate with West Frisian slommerje, slûmerje (“to slumber”), Dutch sluimeren (“to slumber”), German schlummern (“to slumber, doze”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sl?mb?/
- (General American) enPR: sl?m?b?r, IPA(key): /?sl?mb?/
- Rhymes: -?mb?(?)
- Hyphenation: slum?ber
Noun
slumber (plural slumbers)
- A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- He at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night.
- 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour
- Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes.
- (figuratively) A state of ignorance or inaction.
- 2009, Ben-Ami Scharfstein, Art without borders: a philosophical exploration of art and humanity
- 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
Derived terms
- slumbercoach, slumber coach
- slumberlike
Translations
Verb
slumber (third-person singular simple present slumbers, present participle slumbering, simple past and past participle slumbered)
- (intransitive) To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
- (intransitive) To be inactive or negligent.
- (transitive, obsolete) To lay to sleep.
- 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villers, Duke of Buckingham
- slumber his conscience
- 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villers, Duke of Buckingham
- (transitive, obsolete) To stun; to stupefy.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
Translations
See also
- catnap
- doze
- nap
- shuteye
- slumber party
Anagrams
- Blumers, Bulmers, Burslem, Rumbles, lumbers, rumbles, slumbre, umbrels
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tranquillity
English
Alternative forms
- tranquility
Etymology
tranquil +? -ity, from Old French tranquilité, from Latin tranquilitas.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /træ??kw?l?ti/
- Hyphenation: tran?quil?li?ty
Noun
tranquillity (usually uncountable, plural tranquillities)
- the state of being tranquil
- the absence of disturbance; peacefulness
- the absence of stress; serenity
- the quality of calm such as that experienced in places with mainly natural features and activities, free from disturbance from manmade ones.
Usage notes
- More common spelling in the UK; less common in the US.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:calm
Related terms
- tranquil
- tranquillize
- tranquilly
- tranquilness
Translations
Further reading
- tranquillity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- tranquillity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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