vigil
vi juhl
- n a period of sleeplessness
- n the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
- n a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
- Keeping vigil outside Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch for nearly a month, Sheehan became a folksy celebrity: a hero to some and a villain to others.
- One speaker at the vigil was Wyoming's former Senator Alan Simpson, a Republican.
- Ordinary Iranians join candlelit vigil to honor America's dead.