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Definitions for Vigil

[1] wakefulness maintained for any reason during the normal hours for sleeping.
[2] a watch or a period of watchful attention maintained at night or at other times: The nurse kept her vigil at the bedside of the dying man.
[3] a period of wakefulness from inability to sleep.
[4] Ecclesiastical . a devotional watching, or keeping awake, during the customary hours of sleep. Sometimes vigils. a nocturnal devotional exercise or service, especially on the eve before a church festival. the eve, or day and night, before a church festival, especially an eve that is a fast.
[5] a purposeful watch maintained, esp at night, to guard, observe, pray, etc
[6] the period of such a watch
[7] RC Church Church of England the eve of certain major festivals, formerly observed as a night spent in prayer: often marked by fasting and abstinence and a special Mass and divine office
[8] a period of sleeplessness; insomnia

Words related to Vigil

patrol, observance, duty, lookout, notice, observation, attention, surveillance, guard, vigilance, watchfulness, awareness, monitoring, stake-out

Words nearby Vigil

vigentennial, vigesimal, vigesimo, vigesimo-quarto, vigia, vigil, vigil light, vigil mass, vigilambulism, vigilance, vigilance committee

Origin of Vigil

1200–50; Middle English vigil(i)e < Anglo-French < Medieval Latin vigilia eve of a holy day, special use of Latin vigilia watchfulness, equivalent to vigil sentry + -ia -y3

Word origin for Vigil

C13: from Old French vigile, from Medieval Latin vigilia watch preceding a religious festival, from Latin: vigilance, from vigil alert, from vigēre to be lively

Synonyms for Vigil

observance, patrol, attention, awareness, duty, guard, lookout, monitoring, notice, observation, surveillance, vigilance, watchfulness, eagle eye, nightwatch, stake-out