wake-up signal

1. 1.

   (military) signal to wake up

   Synonymsreveille

   Broaderbugle call

   military

Questions about wake-up signal

What does wake-up signal mean?

wake-up signal means "(military) signal to wake up".

What is another word for wake-up signal?

Close synonyms include reveille. 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.

Is wake-up signal a common word?

wake-up signal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.