- sleep, slumber - a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber"
--1 is a kind of physiological state, physiological condition
--1 has particulars:sleeping; orthodox sleep, nonrapid eye movement sleep, NREM sleep, nonrapid eye movement, NREM; paradoxical sleep, rapid eye movement sleep, REM sleep, rapid eye movement, REM; shuteye Derived form: verb slumber1 - slumber - a dormant or quiescent state
--2 is a kind of dormancy, quiescence, quiescency
- sleep, kip, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z's - be asleep
--1 is one way to rest
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun slumber1, noun slumberer1
Sam and Sue slumber