Vigil

Definition: Vigil

Vigil

Noun

1. A period of sleeplessness.

2. A devotional watch (especially on the eve of a religious festival).

3. A purposeful surveillance to guard or observe.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "vigil" was first used: 12th century. (references)

Etymology: Vigil \Vig"il\, noun. [from Old English expression vigile, from Latin expression vigilia, from vigil awake, watchful, probably akin to English wake: compare to the French expression vigile. See Wake, v. i., and compare to Reveille, Surveillance, Vedette, Vegetable, Vigor.]. (references)

Synonym: Vigil

Care

Watchfulness; Adjective: vigilance, surveillance, eyes of Argus, watch, vigil, look out, watch and ward, loeil du maitre.

Crosswords: Vigil

But glory will not distract him from his vigil. (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond)

Port Chicago Vigil (1966)

Vigil in the North (1954)

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Books

• Easter Vigil and Other Poems (reference)

• Jerusalem Vigil (reference)

• Lonely Vigil (reference)

• Stormy Vigil [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

• Vigil (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Vigil (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil (Vespers) / Thomas, Seattle Pro Musica, et al (reference)

• Vigil (reference)

• Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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District Conservationist Ed Romero (left) and Northwest Field Team Leader Norman Vigil (right) analyze rotational grazing techniques on small farms in Espanola, New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Northwest Field Team Leader Norm Vigil (red) and Soil Conservationist Jill Jensen (blue) provide grazing recommendations for a ranch that specializes in raising elk for hunting. Chama, New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Norm Vigil, Northwest Field Team Leader (red ) and David Manzannares, RC&D Coordinator inspect a large organic debris catcher designed by NRCS after the Los Alamos fires. These catchers prevented large debris from moving down stream casuing problems in s. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

NRCS employees Norm Vigil and Jill Jensen review thinning project near Chamas, New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

"Providing ammunition to keep the big guns of the heavy cruiser USS Boston on the line is almost a daily task for the fast combat support ships like USS Sacramento. The Seventh Fleet cruiser keeps a vigil close offshore, to provide heavy gunfire in support of Marine operations inland. When not assisting the Marines with her eight and five-inch guns, Boston patrols on Sea Dragon destroying military targets along the coast of North Vietnam." (quoted from the original photo caption). Photographed by Chief Journalist Robert D. Moeser, USN. Photo is dated 25 June 1967. This image, taken from above Boston's port bow, shows her forward triple 8"/55 gun turrets, with eight-inch powder tanks and projectiles on deck nearby. Sacramento (AOE-1) is steaming alongside. Credit: NAVY.

The vigil continued far into the night, and until the gray dawn streaked the sky. Credit: Library of Congress.

The vigil. Credit: Library of Congress.

Candlelight vigil at the Squad Co. 1 firehouse, following the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York City] / William C. Lopez. Credit: Library of Congress.

Afghan American man holding U.S. flags and wearing red, white, and blue in his turban participates in a vigil held by his community at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., following the attacks of September 11th. Credit: Library of Congress.

12 hour vigil, Friday, May 4, 1973. Credit: Library of Congress.

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But of late, since the night of his vigil, all her sympathies towards him had been both softened and invigorated

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Civil Liberties

Hong Kong

On June 4, tens of thousands attended the annual candlelight vigil to commemorate the anniversary. (references)

Political Economy

Lesotho

The palace vigil and protests resulted in politically motivated killings, injuries, violence, arson, and destruction. (references)

Political Rights

Colombia

In December members of Congress held a candlelight vigil to remember their peers who had been kidnaped and killed. (references)

Trade

India

In such a case, the revenue authorities exercise a strict overall vigil over operations. (references)

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Expressions using "vigil": keep vigil ♦ on the vigil of ♦ Podophthalmus vigil ♦ vigil candle ♦ vigil light. Additional references.

Albanian

vigjilje, rojë (custodian, escort, guard, guards, guardsman, janitor, keeper, look out, picket, piquet, sentinel, sentry, ward, watchman), manifestim i heshtur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏يقظة (arousal, attentiveness, promptitude, vigilance, wake, wakefulness, watchfulness), ‏حلم يقظة, ‏سهر (attend, look after, lookout, stay up, wake, wakefulness, watch, watchfulness), ‏عشية العيد (eve). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нощно бдение, навечерие на празник. (various references)

Chinese 

守夜. (various references)

Czech

viligie, předveèer (eve), noèní stráž, bdìní. (various references)

Danish

sopor (coma vigil, sopor), coma vigile (coma vigil), coma agrypnon (coma vigil). (various references)

Dutch

lichte coma (coma vigil), coma vigil (coma vigil), coma agrypnum (coma vigil). (various references)

Farsi 

احیا (Reclamation, Reduction, Revival), شب زنده داری (Vigilance, Wake), دعای شب . (various references)

Finnish

yövalvonta. (various references)

French

vigile (vigilant), veille, veillée. (various references)

German

Nachtwache (night duty, night watch). (various references)

Greek 

αγρυπνία (wake, wakefulness, watch), ολονυχτία (wake). (various references)

Hebrew 

ליל שמורים (watchnight), ערות (alertness, liveliness, vigilance, wakefulness), אשמור�" (watch). (various references)

Hungarian

virrasztás (lookout, vigilance, watch). (various references)

Italian

vigilia (eve, wake), vigile (alert, fireman, heedful, observant, policeman, vigilant, wakeful, watchful), veglia (wake, watch). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

夜伽 (watcher, watching). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

よとぎ (watcher, watching). (various references)

Manx

oie'll (eve), farrar (deathwatch, roost, wake for the dead). (various references)

Pig Latin

igilvay.(various references)

Portuguese

vigílias, vigília (wake, watch), vela (bougie, candle, plug, spark plug), orações noturnas. (various references)

Romanian

veghe (wake, wakefulness, ward, watch). (various references)

Russian 

бодрствовать бдение, бодрствование, пикетирование, дежурство (daily duty, duty, maintenance standby, turn of duty). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

budnost (vigilance, wakefulness, watch), bdenje (wake). (various references)

Spanish

vigilia (eve, fast, nightwatch, wake, watch). (various references)

Swedish

vaka (ride, watch), nattvak. (various references)

Turkish

gece uyumama, gece nöbeti (night duty, night watch), gece ibadeti, arife (eve). (various references)

Ukrainian

варта (guard, sentinel, ward, warding), безсоння (insomnia, sleeplessness), пильнування (belay, wake, waking). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thức khuya, sự thức để trông nom. (various references)

Welsh

noswyl (eve of festival), gwylnos (wake, watch-night). (various references)

excubias, excubiis, vigilia, vigiliam, vigiliarum, vigilias, vigiliis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "vigil": vigilance, vigilances, vigilant, vigilante, vigilantes, vigilantism, vigilantisms, vigilantly, vigils. (additional references)

Words containing "vigil": hypervigilance, hypervigilances, hypervigilant, invigilate, invigilated, invigilates, invigilating, invigilation, invigilations, invigilator, invigilators. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Vigil" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Digul, iiijli, vagil, vaig, vegal, vegi, viaggio, vig, viga, vigal, Vigdis, vigel, vigi, vigia, vigile, vigili, vigin, vigis, vigle, vilig, viri, viril, vivile, vynil, Yigal. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: vig.

-3 letters: li.

+1 letter: living, vigils.

+2 letters: livings, vailing, veiling, vialing.

+3 letters: anviling, availing, caviling, deviling, gingival, inveigle, ligative, livening, livingly, reliving, reviling, rivaling, unliving, vagility, veilings, vialling, vigilant, virginal, vitiligo, vittling.

+4 letters: anvilling, believing, cavilling, devilling, divulging, driveling, evildoing, frivoling, genitival, inveigled, inveigler, inveigles, involving, lavishing, misliving, nonliving, outliving, privilege, relieving, rivalling, silvering, slivering, sniveling, swiveling, unveiling, vestigial, vigesimal, vigilance, vigilante, vilifying, violating, virginals, virologic, vitiligos.