vigils
Meaning of vigils
plural noun
- 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
- (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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