wake

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Etymology 1[edit]

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wake (third-person singular simple present wakes, present participle waking, simple past woke or waked, past participle woken)

  1. (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
    I woke up at 4 am 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.
  2. (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping.
  3. to lay out a body prior to burial in order to allow family and friends to pay their last respects.
Translations[edit]
to stop sleeping
to make somebody stop sleeping
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Old English wacu.

Noun[edit]

wake (plural wakes)

  1. A period after a person's death before the body is buried, in some cultures accompanied by a party.
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period after death

Etymology 3[edit]

Probably Middle Low German, from Old Norse vǫk (“a hole in the ice”) ( > Danish våge, Icelandic vök).

Noun[edit]

wake (plural wakes)

  1. The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
  2. The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
  3. (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”, 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.
Translations[edit]
path left behind a ship on the surface of the water
turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft
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Etymology 4[edit]

Noun[edit]

wake (plural wakes)

  1. A number of vultures assembled together.
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Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA: /ˈʋaː.kə/

Etymology[edit]

From Old Dutch *waka, from Proto-Germanic *wakō.

Noun[edit]

wake f (plural waken)

  1. A wake (a gathering to remember a dead person).

Verb[edit]

wake

  1. singular present subjunctive of waken

Torres Strait Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Meriam wakey.

Noun[edit]

wake

  1. (eastern dialect) upper leg

Synonyms[edit]

  • dokap (western dialect)
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