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I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself.'
Melissa Etheridge

Meaning of "wake-up" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WAKE-UP

wake-up play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WAKE-UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wake-Up is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WAKE-UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of wake-up in the English dictionary

The definition of wake-up in the dictionary is an alert or intelligent person.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WAKE-UP

wake
Wake Island
wake up and smell the coffee
wake-robin
wake-up call
wakeboard
wakeboarder
wakeboarding
Wakefield
wakeful
wakefully
wakefulness
wakeless
wakeman
waken
wakener
waker
wakerife
wakes
wakey-wakey

WORDS THAT END LIKE WAKE-UP

change-up
close-up
eye make-up
flare-up
hand-me-up
lace-up
line-up
made-up
make-up
one-up
pancake make-up
pick-me-up
pile-up
re-up
shake-up
take-up
tie-up
tune-up
un-made-up
write-up

Synonyms and antonyms of wake-up in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «wake-up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WAKE-UP

Find out the translation of wake-up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wake-up from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wake-up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

醒来
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

despertarse
570 millions of speakers

English

wake-up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जगा हुआ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يَسْتَيْقِظُ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

просыпаться
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

acordar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জাগো
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

se réveiller
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

bangun
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

aufwachen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

目が覚める
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잠에서 깨다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tangi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thức giấc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எழுப்ப அப்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वेक अप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

uyanmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

svegliarsi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

obudzić się
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прокидатися
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

a se trezi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ξυπνώ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wakker
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vakna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

våkne (opp)
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wake-up

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WAKE-UP»

The term «wake-up» is very widely used and occupies the 8.303 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WAKE-UP» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «wake-up» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «wake-up» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wake-up

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10 QUOTES WITH «WAKE-UP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word wake-up.
1
Corbin Bernsen
My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing 'L.A. Law,' and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn't a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call.
2
Usain Bolt
It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
3
Lisa Bonet
Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pass on to her.
4
Regina Brett
Cancer is a great wake-up call. A call to take the tag off the new lingerie and wear that black lacy slip. To open the box of pearls and put them on. To crack open the bath oil beads before they shrivel up in a bowl on the toilet tank.
5
Melissa Etheridge
I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself.'
6
Bruce Feiler
I definitely subscribe to the idea that 9/11, to use an overused phrase, was a wake-up call. There was a year-long national teach-in on Islam - everyone read books and suddenly talked about Islam, and that was very productive. But there's no doubt that moment has passed.
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Tim Finchem
I'm a fan of the power nap. About twice a week, I'll stretch out on a little couch in my office for 20 minutes. I don't need a wake-up call; I pop right up, feeling refreshed.
8
Laurie Garrett
'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide.
9
Carl Honore
Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
10
Victoria Justice
If you've been driving for a little while and nothing's happened to you yet - and you've been texting and driving - you think, 'Oh nothing's going to happen.' But all it takes is an accident happening with one of your friends or God forbid, something happening to you, to really give you a wake-up call.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAKE-UP»

Discover the use of wake-up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wake-up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Wake Up, Sir!: A Novel
Alan Blair, the hero of Wake Up, Sir! Well, read the book and find out!
Jonathan Ames, 2007
2
Wake Up, I'm Fat!
Camryn's endearing honesty, sass, and razor-sharp wit will appeal to any reader who has ever felt like an o
Camryn Manheim, 2000
3
Wake Up To Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention
The key to becoming fully alive and joyful is to develop our natural capacity for attention and to be fully present here and now.
Ken McLeod, 2002
4
Wake Up Little Susie
This new edition includes a foreword by the esteemed social historian Elaine Tyler May, and an afterword by the author that traces the issues examined in Susie in the context of the current debates.
Rickie Solinger, 2000
5
Wake Up, World!: A Day in the Life of Children Around the World
Remarkably simple, yet packed with information, Wake Up, World! helps young readers find out how kids live in different parts of the world.
Beatrice Hollyer, 1999
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Wake Up and Roar
''The Self contains everything, '' teaches Papaji. ''There is nothing apart from it. This is why you can call it emptiness. There is nothing beyond emptiness.
Papaji H. W. L Poonja, 2010
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Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era: A ...
Provides an overview of the issue of electronic plagiarism in an age of unprecedented access to information, and offers deterrents including academic integrity policies, character education, and high-tech defenses.
Ann Lathrop, Kathleen Foss, 2000
8
The Farmer Didn't Wake Up
Repetitive, predictable story lines and illustrations that match the text provide maximum support to the emergent reader.
Tamara Nunn, 1997
9
Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
Jack Kerouac?s profound meditations on the Buddha?s life and religion In the mid-1950s, Jack Kerouac, a lifelong Catholic, became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that had a significant impact on his ideas of spirituality and later ...
Jack Kerouac, 2008
10
Wake Up, Dad
Dad is sleeping and Nick, James and Kate are trying to wake him up.
Beverley Randell, 1993

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WAKE-UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wake-up is used in the context of the following news items.
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'It was a wake-up call': Rylan Clark discusses his humiliating NAKED …
"But I think that was a big wakeup call for me. That was the day I decided to grow up!" True to his word, Rylan certainly did start to mature after that incident. «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Train passengers to now get 'wake-up' call from Railways
"The user needs to enter the required data such as PNR number, station name, STD code of station while calling up 139 for getting the wake-up alarm," a senior ... «Economic Times, Apr 15»
3
A global wake-up call for the US?
This past month may be remembered as the moment the United States lost its role as the underwriter of the global economic system. True, there have been any ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»

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