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WAKENING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wakening mean?
• WAKENING (noun)
The noun WAKENING has 1 sense:
1. the act of waking
Familiarity information: WAKENING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of waking
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
awakening; wakening; waking up
Context example:
it was the waking up he hated most
Hypernyms ("wakening" is a kind of...):
arousal; rousing (the act of arousing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wakening"):
reveille (a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise)
Derivation:
waken (stop sleeping)
Context examples
But I looked neither to rising sun, nor smiling sky, nor wakening nature.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It turns me cold to think of this creature stealing like a thief to Harry’s bedside; poor Harry, what a wakening!
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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