Definition of "wake" in Englisch

verb

1. (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.

   • I woke up at four o'clock this morning.

2. (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.

   • The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream.

3. (transitive, figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.

4. (intransitive, figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.

5. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.

6. To be or remain awake; not to sleep.

   • , Book II, Chapter I I cannot think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.

7. (obsolete) To be alert; to keep watch

   • Command unto the guards that they diligently wake.

8. (obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.

noun

1. (often obsolete or poetic) The act of waking, or state of being awake.

2. The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.

3. A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.

   • Where any person has died whilst being, or suspected of being, a case or carrier or contact of an infectious disease, the Director may by order prohibit the conduct of a wake over the body of that person or impose such conditions as he thinks fit on the conduct of such wake […]

4. (historical, Church of England) A yearly 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.

   • 1523–1525, Jean Froissart, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England.

5. (collective) A number of vultures assembled together.

noun

1. (nautical) The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.

2. The disturbance which follows an object, person or animal moving through water.

3. (aviation) The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.