waking

adjective

wak·​ing ˈwā-kiŋ How to pronounce waking (audio)
: passed in a conscious or alert state
every waking hour

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Your Organization Is Your Family Most people spend more waking hours with colleagues than relatives. Francois Botha, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025 Students spend more waking hours a day at school than at home in the July-May. Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024 Teens spend much of their waking time with peers and friends. Catherine Bagwell, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2020 When nightmare scenarios move to the waking world, stark fictions and knotty personal histories offer guidance less in the factual specifics than in their emotional terrain. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2020 See All Example Sentences for waking

Word History

First Known Use

1556, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of waking was in 1556

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“Waking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/waking. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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