slumber
verb
[ ˈslʌmbə ]
• sleep.
• "Sleeping Beauty slumbered in her forest castle"
Similar:
sleep,
be asleep,
doze,
rest,
take a siesta,
nap,
take a nap,
catnap,
drowse,
sleep like a log/top,
snooze,
snatch forty winks,
get some shut-eye,
be in the land of Nod,
kip,
have a kip,
get one's head down,
zizz,
get some zizz,
doss (down),
catch some Zs,
be in the arms of Morpheus,
Opposite:
wake up,
slumber
noun
• a sleep.
• "scaring folk from their slumbers"
Similar:
sleep,
nap,
doze,
rest,
siesta,
drowse,
catnap,
beauty sleep,
snooze,
forty winks,
a bit of shut-eye,
kip,
zizz,
Origin:
Middle English: alteration of Scots and northern English sloom, in the same sense. The -b- was added for ease of pronunciation.
