Seven Sleepers Syllabification: (Sev·en Sleep·ers)Definition of Seven Sleepers (in early Christian legend) seven noble Christian youths of Ephesus who fell asleep in a cave while fleeing from persecution by the Roman emperor Decius (c.250 AD) and awoke 187 years later. Seven Sleepers in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of Seven Sleepers in the British & World English dictionary
