wake

1. 1.

   the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)

   “the aftermath of war”

   “in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured”

   Synonymsaftermathbackwash

   Broaderconsequence
2. 2.

   an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii

   SynonymsWake Island

   Broaderisland

   Part ofPacific
3. 3.

   the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward

   “the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe”

   Synonymsbackwash

   Broaderwave
4. 4.

   a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial

   “there's no weeping at an Irish wake”

   Synonymsviewing

   Broadervigil

Other forms of wake

plural

wakes·

past tense or participle

woke

past tense or participle

woken

present participle

waking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wake

What does wake mean?

wake means "be awake, be alert, be there". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wake?

wake has 1 syllable: wake. In IPA it is /ˈweɪk/.

What is another word for wake?

Close synonyms include wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, come alive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of wake?

The recorded antonyms are sleep.

Is wake a common word?

wake is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with wake?

2 words rhyme with wake. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.