Množina: wakes

1. A vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; SYN. viewing.
2. The wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; SYN. backwash.

(Irregular preterit, past participle: woke, woken).
1. To be awake, be alert, be there; SYN. awaken; wake up.
2. To awaken; to rouse from sleep; SYN. rouse; stir.
Watch kept over the body of a dead person during the night before their funeral; it originated in Anglo-Saxon times as the eve before a festival.

1. When you stop sleeping, you wake up. When you cause other people to stop sleeping, you wake them up.
> 2. When you learn something that causes you to understand the truth about something or someone, it wakes you up or wakes you up to the truth about something or someone,

Množina: Wake Forests

Town in North Carolina (USA); zip code 27587.

Množina: Wake Islands

An island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii; Also called: Wake.

Množina: Wake Islands

Small Pacific atoll comprising three islands 3,700 km/2,300 mi W of Hawaii, under US Air Force administration since 1972; area 8 sq km/3 sq mi; It was discovered by Capt William Wake 1841, annexed by the US 1898, and uninhabited until 1935 when it was made an air staging point, with a garrison. It was occupied by Japan 1941–45.

1. To stop sleeping; SYN. awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken.
2. To become (suddenly) attentive; SYN.

Množina: Wake Villages

City in Texas (USA); zip code 75501.

Množina: wake-robins

1. Trillium
2. Jack-in-the-pulpit

Serving to wake up
When you are staying at a hotel and you ask the desk clerk to call you at a certain time to wake you up, you ask for a wake-up call.

Množina: wake-ups

Množina: wake-up calls

1. Something (as a telephone call from a hotel employee to a guest) that serves to wake a sleeper
2. Something that serves to alert a person to a problem, danger, or need