Definitions for the word "wake" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. i.
To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. i.
To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To rouse from sleep; to awake.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. v.
(-king; past woke or waked; past part. Woken or waked) 1 (often foll. By up) (cause to) cease to sleep. 2 (often foll. By up) (cause to) become alert or attentive. 3 archaic (except as waking adj. & n.) Be awake (waking hours). 4 disturb with noise. 5 evoke (an echo). n. 1 watch beside a corpse before burial; attendant lamentation and (less often) merrymaking. 2 (usu. In pl.) Annual holiday in (industrial) northern england. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
15. n.
1 track left on the water''s surface by a moving ship. 2 turbulent air left behind a moving aircraft etc. in the wake of following, as a result of. [low german from old norse]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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