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vigil

/ˈvɪdʒəl/

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What does vigil mean?

noun

  1. An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.
  2. A period of observation or surveillance at any hour.
  3. The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.
More meanings (3)

noun

  1. A quiet demonstration in support of a cause.

verb

  1. To participate in a vigil.

proper noun

  1. A surname.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈvɪdʒəl/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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But of late, since the night of his vigil, all her sympathies towards him had been both softened and invigorated.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet LetterProject Gutenberg ebook #33
About noon he went to the police station to make inquiries, and then came back again for another anxious vigil.
Upton SinclairThe JungleProject Gutenberg ebook #140
More book examples (3)
By the light of a splendid full moon we settled ourselves on a great outspreading branch, and commenced our vigil.
J. H. (John Henry) PattersonThe Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African AdventuresProject Gutenberg ebook #3810
Save for the muffled throb of the rare all-night cars passing the front of the house, our vigil had been a silent one.
Sax RohmerThe Insidious Dr. Fu ManchuProject Gutenberg ebook #173
All that day she scorched in her sheet on the rock, and all that night she kept her vigil there in the bitter cold.
Mark TwainFollowing the Equator: A Journey Around the WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #2895