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Definition of slumber noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

slumber

noun
 
/ˈslʌmbə(r)/
 
/ˈslʌmbər/
[uncountable, countable, usually plural] (literary)
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  1. sleep; a time when somebody is sleeping
    • She fell into a deep and peaceful slumber.
    • The phone suddenly roused her from slumber.
    • I don’t want to wake him from his slumbers.
    • We could hear the breathing of someone in a deep slumber.
    Oxford Collocations DictionarySlumber is used before these nouns:
    • party
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    Word OriginMiddle English: alteration of Scots and northern English sloom, in the same sense. The -b- was added for ease of pronunciation.
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