eternal sleep en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(uncountable) A magical state of suspended animation, a state of ageless, deathless, everlasting sleep. Well-known examples are Endymion (the lover of the Greek moon goddess, Selene), and the princess Sleeping Beauty.
She is, indeed, most wondrous fair: Gold of sunshine in her hair. Lips that shame the red red rose. In ageless sleep, she finds repose. The years roll by, but a hundred years, to a steadfast heart, are but a day.
1959, Erdmann Penner, Sleeping Beauty (film)
- (euphemistic, idiomatic, uncountable) Death
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Translations (11)
pl wieczny sen (death (euphemism)) · ru ве́чный сон (death (euphemism)) · ja 永眠 (death (euphemism)) · ro somnul veșnic (death (euphemism)) · es sueño eterno (death (euphemism)) · ru беспробу́дный сон (death (euphemism)) · fr sommeil éternel (death (euphemism)) · ru беспробу́дный сон (a magical state of suspended animation) · ko 영면 (death (euphemism)) · ja 永遠の眠り (death (euphemism)) · ru ве́чный сон (a magical state of suspended animation)