Definition of Wake

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Definition of Wake

Wake

The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.

To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.

To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.

To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.

To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.

To rouse from sleep; to awake.

To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.

To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.

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

The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.

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

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, often to excess.

The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.

Related Definitions:

Act, Action, Active, Again, Also, Among, An, And, Annual, Any, Army, Arouse, As, At, Attended, Awake, Awaked, Awakened, Be, Being, Body, Bring, By, Cease, Chiefly, Church, Commemoration, Continue, Day, Dead, Death, Dedication, Degree, Discontinued, Dormant, Drinking, During, Eating, Especially, Evening, Excess, Excite, Excited, Extension, Festival, Festive, Festivity, For, Forbearing, Formerly, From, Held, Hold, If, In, Inactive, Irish, Itself, Late, Left, Life, Motion, Night, Not, Occupied, Of, Often, On, Or, Originally, Parish, Preceding, Put, Reanimate, Revel, Revive, Rouse, Roused, Rural, Said, Sit, Sitting, Sleep, Solemn, State, Stirred, Subsequently, Succeeding, Sung, The, These, To, Torpid, Track, Up, Vessel, Vigil, Wake, Waking, Was, Watch, Water, Were, With

Wake Quotations

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Benjamin Franklin

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
Muhammad Ali

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
John Lennon

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.
Jim Morrison

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
Lord Byron

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.
Joan Rivers

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
Alan Greenspan

Wake Translations

wake in Dutch is wekken, wakker maken, opwekken
wake in German is wach, aufwecken, wachen
wake in Italian is destare
wake in Latin is excito
wake in Spanish is despertar, estela
wake in Swedish is vakna

Quotes