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Webster 1913 Edition


Slumberer

Slum′ber-er

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Noun.
One who slumbers; a sleeper.

Webster 1828 Edition


Slumberer

SLUM'BERER

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Noun.
One that slumbers.

Definition 2024


slumberer

slumberer

English

Noun

slumberer (plural slumberers)

  1. One who slumbers; a sleeper.
    • 1633, John Donne, The Progress of the Soul. Metempsychosis, in John Carey (ed.) John Donne: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, 1990, First Song, Stanza XV, 141-6, p. 75,
      His right arm he thrust out towards the east, / Westward his left; th' ends did themselves digest / Into ten lesser strings, these fingers were: / And as a slumberer stretching on his bed, / This way he this, and that way scattered / His other leg, which feet with toes upbear;
    • 1955, Martin Buber, The Legend of the Baal-Shem, translated by Maurice Friedman, London: Routledge, 2002, p. 148,
      There lay the houses in the dawn light with closed window-shutters, like joyless slumberers with heavy lids.

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