vigil

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English - English

Definition of vigil in English English dictionary: the eve of some religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions; a period of observation or surveillance; a watch kept during normal sleeping hours, especially over the body of a recently deceased or dying person; {n} the eve before a holyday, watch, wake; Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises; Later, the day and the night preceding a feast; A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast; a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe; (Gr olonychtia) Spiritual exercises during the night preceding the feast day of a saint or another major feast, observed by various spiritual preparations, prayers and services; A sequestered period of reflection in which a person contemplates becoming a Companion of a Peerage Order; a devotional watch (especially on the eve of a religious festival); A Roman Catholic religious service held on the eve of the funeral service; A vigil is a period of time when people remain quietly in a place, especially at night, for example because they are praying or are making a political protest. Protesters are holding a twenty-four hour vigil outside the socialist party headquarters. If someone keeps a vigil or keeps vigil somewhere, they remain there quietly for a period of time, especially at night, for example because they are praying or are making a political protest. She kept a vigil at Patrick's bedside; Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch; The eve, or day before, a feast; {i} period of wakefulness during the night (particularly for the purpose of watching or guarding); time of prayer on the eve of a religious holiday; Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast; the day before; a period of sleeplessness; a devotional watch (especially on the eve of a religious festival) a period of sleeplessness
vigil light: a candle lighted by a worshiper in a church
candlelight vigil: An event that includes lighting candles, used to remember the victims in a tragedy. (Examples: Virginia Tech massacre and the September 11, 2001 attacks.)
coma vigil: A state in which the patient lies with eyes open, yet unresponsive to the outside world
vigilance: Close and continuous attention
vigilant: Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
Be vigilant for signs of disease in your garden.
vigilance: alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger
vigilant: being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety
vigilance: {n} watchfulness, heed, care
vigilant: {a} watchful, circumspect, diligent
vigilantly: {a} watchfully, attentively, warily
A vigil: vigily
Vigilance: vigilancy
keep vigil: be on guard, stand guard, keep watch
vigilance: Guard; watch
vigilance: {i} state of being watchful and alert (especially to the possibility of danger)
vigilance: Watchfulness in respect of danger; care; caution; circumspection
vigilance: Alert watchfulness
vigilance: The quality or state of being vigilant; forbearance of sleep; wakefulness
vigilance: the process of paying close and continuous attention
vigilance: careful attention that you give to what is happening, so that you will notice any danger or illegal activity
vigilance: vigilant attentiveness; "he keeps a weather eye open for trouble"
vigilant: {s} diligently alert and watchful (especially to the possibility of danger)
vigilant: Someone who is vigilant gives careful attention to a particular problem or situation and concentrates on noticing any danger or trouble that there might be. He warned the public to be vigilant and report anything suspicious = alert + vigilance vigi·lance Drugs are a problem that requires constant vigilance. giving careful attention to what is happening, so that you will notice any danger or illegal activity (present participle of vigilare , from vigil; VIGIL)
vigilant: Attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary
vigilant: carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger; "a policy of open-eyed awareness"; "the vigilant eye of the town watch"; "there was a watchful dignity in the room"; "a watchful parent with a toddler in tow"
vigilant: watchful; wary; alert
vigilantly: In a vigilant manner
vigilantly: in a watchful manner
vigilantly: in a vigilant manner, watchfully, alertly
vigils: plural of vigil

vigil

Hyphenation

vig·il

Turkish pronunciation

vîcıl

Synonyms

lookout, look-out, qui vive, watch, attention, awareness, duty, eagle eye, guard, monitoring, nightwatch, notice, observance, observation, patrol

Pronunciation

/ˈvəʤəl/ /ˈvɪʤəl/

Etymology

() Middle English vigile (“a devotional watching”), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to be strong”). Related to vigor, and more distantly compare vis and vital, from similar Proto-Indo-European roots and meanings (lively, power, life), via Latin. For use of “live, alive” in sense “watching”, compare qui vive.