adj
Meaning 1
Watchful; vigilant; alert.
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Usage: UK, dialectal
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Standard Lemma guide
waker
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name
Meaning 2
A surname transferred from the nickname.
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noun
Meaning 3
One who wakens or arouses from sleep.
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- an early waker
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noun
Meaning 4
One who wakes somebody or something.
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noun
Meaning 5
An alarm clock.
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noun
Meaning 6
In the Rust programming language, a handle that "wakes up" a task by notifying its executor that it is ready to be run.
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Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
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noun
Meaning 7
a person who awakes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an early waker
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Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
noun
Meaning 8
someone who rouses others from sleep
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Broader terms: attendant, attender, tender
History
Etymology
From Middle English wakyr, from Old English wacor, waccor (“watchful, vigilant”), from Proto-West Germanic *wakr, from Proto-Germanic *wakraz (“awake, watchful”), equivalent to wake + -er. Cognate with Scots wakir (“watchful”), Dutch wakker (“awake”), German wacker (“awake, alert, capable, brave”), Swedish vacker (“wakeful, watchful, fair, comely”). Also precisely cognate with Sanskrit वज्र (vájra, “adamantine”), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wóǵ-ros (“strong, lively”), and therefore a doublet of vajra. Further related through the same Indo-European root to vigil, vigor, and vegetable.
Either from waker, a nickname for a watchful person, or a variant of Walker.
From Middle English wakere, equivalent to wake + -er. Compare West Frisian wekker (“alarm clock”, literally “waker”), Dutch wekker, German Wecker.