Difference between shuteye and slumber
Definitions
noun
- informal term for sleep
Examples
While I had hoped to sleep for most of the flight, I was too excited for shuteye.
Six in ten reckon the quality of their shuteye makes them look better.
Whether it's just a quick doze or a nap that lasts through the majority of the feature, any kind of shuteye is a frustration for the moviegoer.
Definitions
noun
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a dormant or quiescent state
verb
- be asleep
Examples
That call my slumbering life to wake to happy things.
It had been always understood, by watchful politicians, that the Repeal agitation slumbered only until the reinstalment of a Conservative administration.
He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots.
