Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who slumbers; a sleeper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who slumbers; a sleeper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
slumbers ; asleeper .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rester who is sleeping
Etymologies
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Examples
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a gauzy curtain of silver tissue, which, without impeding respiration, protected the slumberer from the fell insects of an Oriental night.
Chapter 5 - Part IX 1822
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The slumberer was the person who ought to have been pacing the deck.
The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Walter Runciman 1892
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But whereas I, amateur slumberer that I am, can only manage to oversleep by a matter of hours, Gareth has mastered the art to such a degree that he can do it for days at a time, as his contribution today on that bastion of truthiness, Freedom Central, demonstrates:
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But whereas I, amateur slumberer that I am, can only manage to oversleep by a matter of hours, Gareth has mastered the art to such a degree that he can do it for days at a time, as his contribution today on that bastion of truthiness, Freedom Central, demonstrates:
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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With each newly discovered slumberer, the populace grew more pensive.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010
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With each newly discovered slumberer, the populace grew more pensive.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010
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A fine, thick blanket I stole from a slumberer and stamped over that window nightynight and had situated myself on lightnights that way for years.
Magic X Nina Alvarez 2010
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I pulled out the nozzle and turned it full onto the slumberer in her slumblies and dead quiet.
Magic X Nina Alvarez 2010
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With each newly discovered slumberer, the populace grew more pensive.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010
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The slumberer formed a singular group along with the tall forms of the hermit in his shaggy dress of goat-skins, bearing the lamp, and the knight in his close leathern coat — the former with an austere expression of ascetic gloom, the latter with anxious curiosity deeply impressed on his manly features.
The Talisman 2008
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