Thesaurus: vigil

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1. v. i. 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.
2. v. i. Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.
3. v. i. Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.
4. v. i. Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.
5. v. i. A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.
6. n. a period of sleeplessness
7. n. the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
8. n. a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
9. n:100 n. a period of sleeplessness n. the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)