slumber
Other forms: slumbers; slumbering; slumbered
Slumber means "sleep" — as a verb or noun. If you're a sound sleeper, you might slumber peacefully right through a thunderstorm, your slumber undisturbed.
To slumber is to sleep, sometimes specifically to sleep lightly or doze. You can slumber in your bed, in your airplane seat, or through your alarm in the morning. Slumber can also describe a peacefulness, like your quiet street that seems to slumber early in the morning. The phrase slumber party was first used in the 1940s to mean a gathering held at night, that usually involves very little slumbering.
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be asleepsynonyms: catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, sleeptypes:type of:restbe at rest
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a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended“calm as a child in dreamless slumber”synonyms: sleeptypes:sleepingthe state of being asleepNREM, NREM sleep, nonrapid eye movement, nonrapid eye movement sleep, orthodox sleepa recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur; accounts for about 75% of normal sleep timeREM, REM sleep, paradoxical sleep, rapid eye movement, rapid eye movement sleepa recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleepshuteyeinformal term for sleeptype of:physical condition, physiological condition, physiological statethe condition or state of the body or bodily functions
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a dormant or quiescent state
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Vocabulary from "Beowulf" (translated by by Gummere).
In the fifth book of the Heroes of Olympus series, a group of demigods battles against giants and the goddess Gaia, who is intent on destroying the earth.
On August 15, 1947, India signed an agreement that granted it s independence from Britain. India had not ruled itself for centuries. After a long and exhausting fight that took decades of diplomatic struggle and protest, India was finally free and Jawaharlal Nehru became the first Prime Minister of the nation. The speech he gave upon India's independence being secured is known as the "Tryst with Destiny" speech. It is justifiably famous as a great speech delivered at a great historic moment. Here are 24 vocabulary words from the speech. The full text of the speech is available here.