Definitions for woken

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woken wok·en

Spelling: [woh-kuh n]

IPA: /ˈwoʊ kən/

Woken is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in woken (eknow).

Definitions for woken

noun

1. a watching, or a watch kept, especially for some solemn or ceremonial purpose.
2. a watch or vigil by the body of a dead person before burial, sometimes accompanied by feasting or merrymaking.
3. a local annual festival in England, formerly held in honor of the patron saint or on the anniversary of the dedication of a church but now usually having little or no religious significance.
4. the state of being awake:

verb

1. a past participle of wake1 .

verb (used with object)

1. to rouse from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up):
2. to rouse from lethargy, apathy, ignorance, etc. (often followed by up):
3. to hold a wake for or over (a dead person).
4. to keep watch or vigil over.

verb (used without object)

1. to become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up).
2. to become roused from a tranquil or inactive state; awaken; waken:
3. to become cognizant or aware of something; awaken; waken:
4. to be or continue to be awake:
5. to remain awake for some purpose, duty, etc.:
6. to hold a wake over a corpse.
7. to keep watch or vigil.

Origin of woken

before 900; (v.) in sense “to become awake” continuing Middle English waken, Old English *wacan (found only in past tense wōc and the compounds onwacan, āwacan to become awake; see Examples for woken

Emanuel recalls reading to his children and falling asleep before they did, only to be woken by a late night phone call.

I was woken up by a wet kiss planted on my lips by Isabel's husband.

A quarter of an hour afterwards Julien pretended to have just woken up.

She kept resisting the command only to be woken up by it yet again.

It was as though he had woken up, his real self; then—lost that self again.

It is the moment when we are woken from our routine lives by a whisper or explosion, either of which demands ‘Why?’

At eleven he had woken with a start, and, hardening his heart, had gone back to his sermon.

For a brief moment during the 2011–12 protests it seemed as if Navalny had woken Moscow up.

On the way to Irkutsk I slept for fifty-eight versts, and was only once woken up.

Cuomo said that passengers were woken up about an hour into the flight when the aircraft began to bounce.