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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'vigil' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions vigil noun  a watch kept during normal sleeping hours, especially over the body of a recently deceased or dying person a period of observation or surveillance the eve of some religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions Translations:  German: Wache (trans-mid) Etymology: vigile ("a devotional watching"), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia ("wakefulness, watch"), from vigil ("awake"), from Proto-Indo-European weg- ("to be strong").        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary 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

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