Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (3)
1.
the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter;
2.
cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter;
especially slowing of metabolism in some animals;
3.
the act of retiring into inactivity;
- Example: "he emerged from his hibernation to make his first appearance in several years"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hibernation \Hi`ber*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F. hibernation.]
The act or state of hibernating. --Evelyn.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
hibernation
n 1: the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the
winter
2: cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter;
especially slowing of metabolism in some animals
3: the act of retiring into inactivity; "he emerged from his
hibernation to make his first appearance in several years"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "hibernation":
beauty sleep, beddy-bye, bedtime, blanket drill, bye-bye, dormancy,
doze, dreamland, drowse, fitful sleep, immobility, inaction,
inactiveness, inactivity, inertia, land of Nod, light sleep, lull,
motionlessness, quiescence, repose, shut-eye, silken repose, sleep,
sleepland, sleepwalking, slumber, slumberland, snoozle,
somnambulism, somniloquy, somnus, suspension, unconsciousness,
underactivity, winter sleep