vigils

Meaning of vigils

plural noun
  1. a period of keeping awake during the time usually spent asleep, especially to keep watch or pray.
    my birdwatching vigils lasted for hours
    as he lay in a coma the family kept vigil
  2. (in the Christian Church) the eve of a festival or holy day as an occasion of religious observance.

Middle English (in vigil (sense 2)): via Old French from Latin vigilia, from vigil ‘awake’.

Information about vigils

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of vigils is: vigil.
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Hyphenation of vigils

vig-ils

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • vigils is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with vigils

gils, ridgils, sigils, strigils, argils, pugils

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