waker

Meanings

Plural: wakers

Noun

someone who rouses others from sleep
a person who awakes
- "an early waker"
One who wakens or arouses from sleep.
One who wakes somebody or something.
In the Rust programming language, a handle that "wakes up" a task by notifying its executor that it is ready to be run.

Adj

Watchful; vigilant; alert.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English wakyr, from Old English wacor, waccor (“watchful, vigilant”), from Proto-West Germanic *wakr, 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”). Also precisely cognate with Sanskrit वज्र (vájra, “adamantine”), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wóǵ-ros (“strong, lively”), and therefore a doublet of vajra. Further related through the same Indo-European root to vigil, vigor, and vegetable.

Synonyms

arouser, rouser

Scrabble Score: 12

waker is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
waker is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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Words With Friends Score: 12

waker is a valid Words With Friends word