Vigil - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈvɪdʒɪl|
Brit.
|ˈvɪdʒɪl|
noun
- a period of sleeplessness
- the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) (syn: watch)
- a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe (syn: watch)
- the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) (syn: watch)
- a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe (syn: watch)
Extra examples
...kept vigil at their ailing son's bedside the entire time he was in the hospital...
Eva and Paul kept a constant vigil by their daughter's hospital bedside.
2000 demonstrators held a candlelit vigil outside the embassy.
...during the vigil service the church's Gothic interior was illumed by the light of hundreds of tapers...
Outside the building people continue their vigil.
Word forms
noun
singular: vigil
plural: vigils
singular: vigil
plural: vigils
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