English Explanatory Dictionary

wake

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
  2. (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
  3. To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
  4. To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
  5. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
  6. To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
  7. To be alert; to keep watch
  8. To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
noun
  1. A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
  2. The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
  3. A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
  4. The act of waking, or state of being awake.
  5. A number of vultures assembled together.
noun
  1. The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
  2. The disturbance which follows an object, person or animal moving through water.
  3. The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
  4. The area behind a moving person or object.
  5. The perturbation behind a body moving through a fluid.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. Ellipsis of Wake County.
  3. Ellipsis of Wake Island.

Pronunciation

/ˈweɪ̯k/ [ˈweɪ̯k] En-us-wake.ogg /ˈweːk/ /ˈwæɪ̯k/ [ˈwæ̝ɪ̯k] wāk

Word forms

wake wakes waking woke waked woken no-table-tags glossary wakest wokest waketh

Etymology

A merger of two verbs of related/similar form and meaning: * Middle English waken, Old English wacan, from Proto-West Germanic *wakan, from Proto-Germanic *wakaną. * Middle English wakien, Old English wacian, from Proto-West Germanic *wakēn, from Proto-Germanic *wakāną.

Synonyms

abraid arise arouse awake awaken get up rise rouse stir wake wake up waken bring round cry knock up roust uprouse abet actuate goose light a fire under send sting bring about cheer draw drive encourage egg on engender evoke excite foment goad grill ignite impel incite induce inflame instigate invoke lash motive motivate move obligate oblige push promote prompt provoke set off spark off spur spur on stimulate stir up stoke tempt

Antonyms

fall asleep sleep

Related words

wacken pull an all-nighter rise and shine show a leg lark owl all-nighter reveille yawn wakefulness enliven arval arvel shiva shivah wait watch in the wake of wakes

Derived words

bewake non-24-hour sleep-wake disorder wake and bake wake boat wakeful wakeless wakesome wake the dead wake up wake up one day lich-wake wake-on-LAN wake-sleep algorithm wake word Kelvin wake pattern wakeboarding wake flow wake loss wakeskater wakeskating wake turbulence wake vortex Wake County Wake Island Wake's Island Wake Islander Wakes Colne

Translations

Albanian: zgjim Gheg Albanian: njeh Southern Altai: ойгонор Arabic: اِسْتَيْقَظَ Arabic: قام Arabic: صحي Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܪܵܥܹܫ Armenian: արթնանալ Armenian: զարթնել Breton: dihuniñ Bulgarian: събуждам се Buryat: һэрихэ Catalan: despertar-se East Circassian: къэушын Czech: vzbudit se Czech: probudit se Danish: vågne Dutch: ontwaken Dutch: wakker worden Esperanto: vekiĝi Estonian: ärkama Faroese: vakna Finnish: herätä French: se réveiller Galician: acordar Galician: espertar German: aufwachen German: erwachen Greek: ξυπνάω Greek: ξυπνώ Ancient Greek: ἐγείρομαι Hebrew: התעורר Hebrew: נעור Hebrew: הקיץ Hungarian: ébred Hungarian: felébred Hungarian: felkel Icelandic: vakna Indonesian: bangun Irish: dúisigh Irish: múscail Old Irish: do·fíuschi Italian: risvegliarsi Italian: svegliarsi Japanese: 目覚める Japanese: 起きる Japanese: 目が覚める Kalmyk: серх Korean: 일어나다 Latin: expergiscor Latin: evigilo Latin: evigilor Latvian: mosties Livonian: virgõ Luxembourgish: erwächen Macedonian: се буди Macedonian: се разбудува Macedonian: се разбуди Mongolian: сэрэх Norwegian Bokmål: våkne
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