wake
See also: Wake
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈweɪk/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪk
- Homophone: Wake
Etymology 1
A merger of two verbs of similar form and meaning:
Verb
wake (third-person singular simple present wakes, present participle waking, simple past woke or waked, past participle woken or waked)
- (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
- I woke up at four o'clock this morning.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- How long I slept I cannot tell, for I had nothing to guide me to the time, but woke at length, and found myself still in darkness.
- (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
- Bible, Zech. iv. 1
- The angel […] came again and waked me.
- The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream.
- Bible, Zech. iv. 1
- (transitive, figuratively) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage
- (Can we date this quote?) J. R. Green
- Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- Gentle airs due at their hour / To fan the earth now waked.
- (Can we date this quote?) Keble
- Then wake, my soul, to high desires.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- To lay out a body prior to burial in order to allow family and friends to pay their last respects.
- To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
- To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
- Bible, Eccles. xlii. 9
- The father waketh for the daughter.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Locke
- I cannot think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
- Bible, Eccles. xlii. 9
- (obsolete) To be alert; to keep watch
- Command unto the guards that they diligently wake.
- (obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, / Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
to stop sleeping
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to make somebody stop sleeping
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Noun
wake (plural wakes)
- (obsolete, poetic) The act of waking, or state of being awake.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep.
- (Can we date this quote?) Dryden
- Singing her flatteries to my morning wake.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
- (Can we date this quote?) Dryden
- The warlike wakes continued all the night, / And funeral games played at new returning light.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim, / Their merry wakes and pastimes keep.
- (Can we date this quote?) Dryden
Etymology 2
From Old English wacu, from Proto-Germanic *wakō.
Noun
wake (plural wakes)
- A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party and/or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
- (historical, Church of England) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
- Ld. Berners
- Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England.
- Drayton
- And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer.
- Ld. Berners
Synonyms
- death watch
Translations
period after death
Etymology 3
Probably Middle Low German, from Old Norse vǫk (“a hole in the ice”) ( > Danish våge, Icelandic vök).
Noun
wake (plural wakes)
- The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
- The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
- (figuratively) The area behind something, typically a rapidly moving object.
- De Quincey
- This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.
- Thackeray
- Several humbler persons […] formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels.
- 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:
- Alex Song launched a long ball forward from the back and the winger took it down nicely on his chest. He cut across the penalty area from the right and after one of the three defenders in his wake failed to make a meaningful clearance, the Oxlade-Chamberlain was able to dispatch a low left-footed finish into the far corner.
- De Quincey
Translations
path left behind a ship on the surface of the water
See also
Etymology 4
See also
Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *waka, from Proto-Germanic *wakō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʋaː.kə/
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Middle English
Swahili
Torres Strait Creole
Noun
wake
- (eastern dialect) upper leg
Synonyms
- dokap (western dialect)
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