English Explanatory Dictionary

waker

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Watchful; vigilant; alert.
noun
  1. One who wakens or arouses from sleep.
  2. One who wakes somebody or something.
  3. An alarm clock.
  4. In the Rust programming language, a handle that "wakes up" a task by notifying its executor that it is ready to be run.
name
  1. A surname transferred from the nickname.

Word forms

waker more waker most waker wakers

Etymology

From Middle English wakyr, from Old English wacor, waccor (“watchful, vigilant”), from Proto-West Germanic *wakr, from Proto-Germanic *wakraz (“awake, watchful”), equivalent to wake + -er. Cognate with Scots wakir (“watchful”), Dutch wakker (“awake”), German wacker (“awake, alert, capable, brave”), Swedish vacker (“wakeful, watchful, fair, comely”). Also precisely cognate with Sanskrit वज्र (vájra, “adamantine”), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wóǵ-ros (“strong, lively”), and therefore a doublet of vajra. Further related through the same Indo-European root to vigil, vigor, and vegetable.

Related words

waker-upper
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