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