Vigil

What do we mean by vigil?

A watch kept during normal sleeping hours. noun

The act or a period of observing; surveillance. noun

The eve of a religious festival observed by staying awake as a devotional exercise. noun

Ritual devotions observed on the eve of a holy day. noun

The act of keeping awake; abstinence or forbearance from sleep at the natural or ordinary hours of rest; the state of being awake during the natural time for sleep; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch: commonly in the plural. noun

Devotional watching; hence, devotions, services, praise, prayer, or the like performed during the customary hours of sleep; nocturnal devotions: commonly in the plural. noun

Eccles.: Originally, in the early church, the watch kept in a church or cemetery on the night before a feast, the time being occupied in prayer. noun

Hence— The day and night preceding a festival; the eve or day before a festival; strictly, an eve which is a fast. noun

A wake. noun

Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch. noun

Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises. noun

Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast. noun

Later, the day and the night preceding a feast. noun

A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast. noun

A peculiar faculty belonging to the flowers of certain plants of opening and closing their petals at certain hours of the day. noun

A watch kept during normal sleeping hours, especially over the body of a recently deceased or dying person. noun

A period of observation or surveillance. noun

An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.

A period of observation or surveillance at any hour.

The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.

A quiet demonstration in support of a cause.

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Observant Urban Dictionary

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A Runescape clan that after losing a war or mini, will appear offline for the rest of the day and vent their frustrations with porn or having a nerd rage in their chat. They are often seen in game autoing as they cannot earn the levels legit Urban Dictionary

Loser conspiretard forum for idiots. Ripoff of another place. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to vigil:
vigil, sigil, virgil, rigil, vigia, viril, vieil.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word vigil:
matins, vespers, pentecost, paschal, bedside, liturgy, feast, easter, nativity, fasting, candle, liturgical, candles, ascension, remembrance, resurrection, mirrors, prayers, procession, blessing, blessed, coffin, saturday, arrow, midnight, rite, choral, sunday, prayer, funeral, solidarity, divine, protest, masses, lafayette, victims, mass, evacuation, eve, holy, assumption, celebration, honor, benedict, wilderness, overnight, celebrated, mercy, lodge, commemorate, occupy, evening, demonstration, rally, lutheran, morning, night, orthodox, friday, worship, silent, saints, christmas, embassy, gathered, monday, outside, gospel, organised, aids, sung, priest, stakes, pope, grave, held, participants, memorial, choir, shooting, memory, virgin, cathedral, peace.

Words that rhyme with vigil:
smigel, schmidgall, bridge hill, ridge hill, ridge il, ridgell, skidgel.

Adjectives that are often used to describe vigil:
long, constant, lonely, night, silent, solitary, hour, nightly, anxious, strict, coma, ceaseless, eternal, weary, sleepless, clock, day, nocturnal, solemn, daily, close, patient, endless, continuous, prolonged, sad, faithful, tongueless, quiet, paschal, weekly, dreary, holy, lone, perpetual, melancholy, strange, careful, overnight, sacred, unceasing, watchful, fruitless, cold, prayerful, grim, painful, steady, allnight, four, permanent, dreadful, fearful, brief, year, armed, hopeless, mournful, tense, terrible, uneasy, deathbed, protracted, awful, unbroken, restless, useless, tireless, everlasting, tedious, gloomy, incessant, sorrowful, sharp, candlelit, lengthy, peaceful, stern, unending, secret, kept.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective vigil:
pinon, torment, colet, escalera, grant, lights, pifion.

Consonant match to vigil:
virgil, vagile, vergil.

Words that sound like vigil:
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