VIGIL: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for VIGIL?

Need another word that means the same as “vigil”? Find 15 synonyms and 30 related words for “vigil” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Vigil” are: watch, vigilance, close watch, monitoring, policing, surveillance, sentry duty, burial, burying, interment, entombment, committal, inhumation, laying to rest, consignment to the grave

Vigil as a Noun

Definitions of "Vigil" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “vigil” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A period of sleeplessness.
• (in the Christian Church) the eve of a festival or holy day as an occasion of religious observance.
• A purposeful surveillance to guard or observe.
• The rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival.
• Nocturnal devotions.
• A period of keeping awake during the time usually spent asleep, especially to keep watch or pray.
• A stationary, peaceful demonstration in support of a particular cause, typically without speeches.

Synonyms of "Vigil" as a noun (15 Words)

burial	The action or practice of burying a dead body. Burial mounds.
burying	Concealing something under the ground.
close watch	The temporal end; the concluding time.
committal	The burial of a dead body. His committal to prison.
consignment to the grave	The delivery of goods for sale or disposal.
entombment	The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave. The entombment of Christ.
inhumation	A burial or buried corpse. Cremation took over from inhumation as the dominant burial rite.
interment	The burial of a corpse in a grave or tomb, typically with funeral rites. The day of interment.
laying to rest	The production of eggs (especially in birds.
monitoring	An ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac. The monitoring of enemy communications plays an important role in war times.
policing	The enforcement of regulations or an agreement. A ten point plan to improve policing.
sentry duty	A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event.
surveillance	Close observation of a person or group (usually by the police. He found himself put under surveillance by British military intelligence.
vigilance	Vigilant attentiveness. Security duties that demand long hours of vigilance.
watch	The officers and crew on duty during a watch. Murray took the last watch before dawn.

Usage Examples of "Vigil" as a noun

• The group held a candlelight vigil outside the jail.
• My birdwatching vigils lasted for hours.
• As he lay in a coma the family kept vigil.

Associations of "Vigil" (30 Words)

appeal	A shout of ‘How’s that?’ or a similar call by a bowler or fielder to an umpire to declare a batsman out. I appealed to the law of 1900.
beg	Acquire food or money from someone by begging. She begged me to say nothing to her father.
beseech	Ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat. They earnestly beseeched his forgiveness.
cadge	A padded wooden frame on which hooded hawks are carried to the field. He cadged fivers off old school friends.
carefulness	The quality of being careful and painstaking. I admired the carefulness of his work.
conjure	Engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together. She had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother s face.
dermatology	The branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of skin disorders.
entreat	Ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something. The King I fear hath ill entreated her.
entreaty	An earnest or humble request. An entreaty to stop the fighting.
implore	Call upon in supplication; entreat. I implore mercy.
invocation	The act of appealing for help. His invocation of the ancient powers of Callanish.
nursing	The profession or practice of providing care for the sick and infirm. A nursing sister.
ophthalmology	The branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of disorders and diseases of the eye.
optometry	The practice of an optometrist.
pantheon	A monument commemorating a nation’s dead heroes. The deities of the Hindu pantheon.
petition	Write a petition for something to somebody request formally and in writing. A Highland chief petitioned her father for her hand in marriage.
plea	A defendant’s answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer. He made a dramatic plea for disarmament.
plead	Make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts. She was pleading insanity.
podiatry	The treatment of the feet and their ailments; chiropody.
polytheism	Belief in multiple Gods. The polytheism of the ancient Near East.
pray	Address a deity a prophet a saint or an object of worship say a prayer. And what pray was the purpose of that.
prayer	Someone who prays to God. It is our prayer that the current progress on human rights will be sustained.
protector	The title of the head of state in England during the later period of the Commonwealth between 1653 and 1659, first Oliver Cromwell (1653–8), then his son Richard (1658–9). A man who became her protector adviser and friend.
psychiatric	Relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry. Psychiatric hospital.
solicitation	Request for a sum of money. A solicitation to the king for relief.
suppliant	Humbly entreating. A suppliant for her favors.
supplicant	Making or expressing a plea, especially to someone in power or authority. We are equals and not supplicants begging for work.
supplicate	Ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer. Supplicate God s blessing.
supplication	The act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving. He fell to his knees in supplication.
watch	The officers and crew on duty during a watch. Sea air lots of exercise and four hour watches give everyone a healthy appetite.