vigilant

From French vigilant or its source, Latin vigilans, present participle of vigilare (“stay awake”), from vigil (“awake”). Doublet of vigilante, from Spanish. Displaced Old English wacor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪd͡ʒɪlənt/
• Hyphenation: vi‧gi‧lant

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vigilant (comparative more vigilant, superlative most vigilant)

1. Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary

   Be vigilant for signs of disease in your garden.

2. (heraldry, rare) In vigilance.
   • 1972, C. Pama, Heraldry of South African Families: Coats of Arms/ Crests/ Ancestry:

     von der LUTKE / Argent, a crane vigilant proper. AG. Carl von der Lutke. Arr. 1857 with the British German Crimea legion. Obtained a grant of land in the Eastern Province of the Cape Colony.

   • 1997, Saint Thomas More, More to Cranevelt, Leuven University Press, →ISBN, page 23:

     [...] and sharing the same heraldry : argent, a crane, vigilant, or, […]

• (watchful): alert, aware, careful, circumspect, observant, on the qui vive, wakesome, wary, watchful

• pharmacovigilant
• vigilantly

• vigil
• vigilance
• vigilante

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bi.ʒiˈlan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vi.ʒiˈlant]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [vi.d͡ʒiˈlant]

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Borrowed from Latin vigilantem. First attested in 1696.^[1]

vigilant m or f (masculine and feminine plural vigilants)

1. vigilant

• vigilantment

• vigilància
• vigilar

vigilant m or f by sense (plural vigilants)

1. guard, watchman

• vigilant nocturn

vigilant

1. gerund of vigilar

• “vigilant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “vigilant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vigilant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin vigilantem.

• IPA^(key): /vi.ʒi.lɑ̃/

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vigilant (feminine vigilante, masculine plural vigilants, feminine plural vigilantes)

1. vigilant

• vigiler

• “vigilant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): [viɡiˈlant]
• Hyphenation: vi‧gi‧lant

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vigilant (strong nominative masculine singular vigilanter, comparative vigilanter, superlative am vigilantesten)

1. (dated) cunning, smart, clever

   Synonyms: clever, findig, gewieft, pfiffig, gerissen

2. (higher register) watchful, alert, wary (Austria)

   Synonyms: wachsam, aufmerksam

• Vigilant
• Vigilanz
• Vigilantismus

• arrogant

• “vigilant” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “vigilant” in Duden online
• “vigilant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

vigilant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of vigilō