slumber

 
Pronunciation: /ˈslʌmbə/
literary

verb

[no object]
  • sleep: Sleeping Beauty slumbered in her forest castle figurative the village street slumbered under the afternoon sun

noun

(often slumbers)
  • a sleep: scaring folk from their slumbers

Derivatives

slumberer

noun

slumberous

(also slumbrous) adjective

Origin:

Middle English: alteration of Scots and northern English sloom, in the same sense. The -b- was added for ease of pronunciation