Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who wakes or rouses from sleep.
  • noun One who watches; a watcher.
  • noun One who attends a wake.
  • Watchful; vigilant.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who wakes.

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  • adjective Watchful; vigilant; alert.
  • noun One who wakes somebody or something.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who awakes
  • noun someone who rouses others from sleep

Etymologies

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From Middle English wakyr, from Old English wacor, waccor ("watchful, vigilant"), 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").

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From wake +‎ -er.

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