Traditional Chinese Meaning of vigil

守夜

Other Traditional Chinese words related to 守夜

Definitions and Meaning of vigil in English

Wordnet

vigil (n)

a period of sleeplessness

the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)

a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe

Webster

vigil (v. i.)

Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch.

Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.

Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.

Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.

A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.

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守夜

a period of sleeplessness, the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival), a purposeful surveillance to guard

監視,手錶,檢查,瞭望臺,觀察,監督,遵守,審查

No antonyms found.

vigesimo-quarto => 二十四, vigesimation => 二十分之一, vigesimal => 二十進制的, vigee-lebrun => 維吉-勒布倫, vifda => 威夫達,