Soul vs Slumber - What's the difference?
soul | slumber |
(religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.
* 1836 , (Hans Christian Andersen) (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), (The Little Mermaid)
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The spirit or essence of anything.
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, title= Life, energy, vigor.
* Young
(music) Soul music.
A person, especially as one among many.
An individual life.
A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
* Bible, Psalms cxxi. 4
To be inactive or negligent.
(obsolete) To lay to sleep.
(obsolete) To stun; to stupefy.
As an adjective soul
is .As a noun slumber is
a very light state of sleep, almost awake.As a verb slumber is
to be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.soul
English
(wikipedia soul)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) (the Scandinavian forms are borrowings from the Old English).Alternative forms
* sowl (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul', nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal ' soul , can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul . The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
- That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.
- Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
Derived terms
* All Souls' Day * bare one's soul * body and soul * brevity is the soul of wit * dead soul * heart and soul * neo soul * sell one's soul * soul brother * soul-destroying * soul food * soul kiss * soul mate/soulmate * soul-searching * soul-strring * souled * soulful * soulfully * soulfulness * soul music * soul patch * soul searching * soul sister * world soul (soul)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .slumber
English
(wikipedia slumber)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- He at last fell into a slumber , and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night. — Bunyan.
- Fast asleep? It is no matter; / Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber . — Shakespeare.
- Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. — Dryden.
Derived terms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
- (Wotton)
- (Spenser)