dormant

• dormaunt (obsolete)

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin dormiēns, present participle of dormiō (“I sleep”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɹmənt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔːmənt/

dormant (not comparable)

1. Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.

   Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.

   The bank account was dormant; there had been no transactions in months.

   This volcano is dormant but not extinct.

   • 1777, Burke, Edmund, A Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the Affairs of America; republished in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, volume 2, 1864, page 10:

     It is by lying dormant a long time, or being at first very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people.

2. (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.

   a lion dormant

3. (architecture) Leaning.

• (inactive, suspended): quiescent; see also Thesaurus:inactive

• (inactive, suspended): active
• (volcano: inactive): active, extinct

• dorm
• dormancy
• dormition
• dormitive
• dormitory

dormant (plural dormants)

1. (architecture) A crossbeam or joist.

• dormant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• dormant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• dormant at OneLook Dictionary Search

• mordant

• IPA^(key): /dɔʁ.mɑ̃/

dormant (feminine singular dormante, masculine plural dormants, feminine plural dormantes)

1. dormant
2. asleep

dormant

1. present participle of dormir

• “dormant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• mordant

dormant

1. present participle of dormi