English edit

Etymology edit

From French vigilant or its source, Latin vigilans, present participle of vigilare (stay awake), from vigil (awake). Doublet of vigilante, from Spanish. Displaced Old English wacor.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɪd͡ʒɪlənt/
  • Hyphenation: vi‧gi‧lant
  • Audio (UK):(file)

Adjective edit

vigilant (comparative more vigilant, superlative most vigilant)

  1. Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary
    Be vigilant for signs of disease in your garden.
  2. (heraldry, rare) In vigilance.
    • 1972, C. Pama, Heraldry of South African Families: Coats of Arms/ Crests/ Ancestry:
      von der LUTKE / Argent, a crane vigilant proper. AG. Carl von der Lutke. Arr. 1857 with the British German Crimea legion. Obtained a grant of land in the Eastern Province of the Cape Colony.
    • 1997, Saint Thomas More, More to Cranevelt, Leuven University Press, →ISBN, page 23:
      [...] and sharing the same heraldry : argent, a crane, vigilant, or, []

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Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Latin vigilantem. First attested in 1696.[1]

Adjective edit

vigilant m or f (masculine and feminine plural vigilants)

  1. vigilant
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Noun edit

vigilant m or f by sense (plural vigilants)

  1. guard, watchman
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Verb edit

vigilant

  1. gerund of vigilar

References edit

  1. ^ vigilant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

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French edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin vigilantem.

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vigilant (feminine vigilante, masculine plural vigilants, feminine plural vigilantes)

  1. vigilant

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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [viɡiˈlant]
  • Hyphenation: vi‧gi‧lant
  • Audio:(file)

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vigilant (strong nominative masculine singular vigilanter, comparative vigilanter, superlative am vigilantesten)

  1. (dated) cunning, smart, clever
    Synonyms: clever, findig, gewieft, pfiffig, gerissen
  2. (higher register) watchful, alert, wary (Austria)
    Synonyms: wachsam, aufmerksam

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Further reading edit

  • vigilant” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • vigilant” in Duden online
  • vigilant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Verb edit

vigilant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of vigilō