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Slumberer

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slum·ber  (slmbr)
v. slum·bered, slum·ber·ing, slum·bers
v.intr.
1. To sleep.
2. To be dormant or quiescent.
v.tr.
To pass (time) in sleep: slumbered the night away.
n.
1. Sleep.
2. A state of inactivity or dormancy.
[Middle English slumeren, slumberen, frequentative of slumen, to doze, probably from slume, light sleep, from Old English slma.]
slumber·er n.
slumber·ing·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.slumberer - a rester who is sleeping
sleeper
dreamer - someone who is dreaming
rester - a person who rests
Rip van Winkle - a person who sleeps a lot
sleeping beauty - a person who is sleeping soundly
noctambulist, sleepwalker, somnambulist - someone who walks about in their sleep
snorer - someone who snores while sleeping
somniloquist - someone who talks while asleep
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Some looked neither to the right hand nor the left, and knew not that he was there; some merely glanced that way, without admitting the slumberer among their busy thoughts; some laughed to see how soundly he slept; and several, whose hearts were brimming full of scorn, ejected their venomous superfluity on David Swan.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
The rapidity with which an agitated gambler subsided into a snoring slumberer, was one of the most singular effects I have ever witnessed.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
And meet it is, that over these sea-pastures, wide-rolling watery prairies and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
 
 
 
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