Definitions for vigil

vigil vig·il

Spelling: [vij-uh l]
IPA: /ˈvɪdʒ əl/

Vigil is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in vigil (giilv).

Definitions for vigil

noun

  1. wakefulness maintained for any reason during the normal hours for sleeping.
  2. a watch or a period of watchful attention maintained at night or at other times:
  3. a period of wakefulness from inability to sleep.
  4. Ecclesiastical. a devotional watching, or keeping awake, during the customary hours of sleep. Sometimes, vigils. a nocturnal devotional exercise or service, especially on the eve before a church festival. the eve, or day and night, before a church festival, especially an eve that is a fast.

Origin of vigil

1200-50; Middle English vigil(i)e Anglo-French Medieval Latin vigilia eve of a holy day, special use of Latin vigilia watchfulness, equivalent to vigil sentry + -ia -y

Examples for vigil

Dan waked him at twelve for his vigil, and he in turn was wakened at two.

Despite all the fatigue of that terrible night of vigil, he did not think of sleeping.

He was not in the least sleepy; but after a while the vigil began to tell upon his nerves.

Finally, there was a vigil of about ten people standing hand in hand across the street form the clinic praying quietly.

Instead, they had stood in the back and bore witness, not even seeking shade until the end of the vigil.

Of everything else—the vigil, the preparations, the funeral—he remembered nothing.

As the vigil came to a close, Jay-Z and Beyoncé departed, having been classy enough to decline to take the stage.

Two church members stood outside the Church, embracing each mourner as they walked to the vigil.

“If 6,000 people were at the vigil, we hope it will be big,” said university student council President Jalen Ross of the search.

He cleared the room, and took up his vigil outside the door.

Word Value for vigil
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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