Dictionary Entry
vigil
vigil is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as intransitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
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.
- 2intransitive verb
Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.
- 3intransitive verb
Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.
- 4intransitive verb
Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.
- 5intransitive verb
A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.
- 6noun
a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
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- 7noun
the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
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- 8noun
a period of sleeplessness
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