waking

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adjective

wak·​ing ˈwā-kiŋ 

: passed in a conscious or alert state

every waking hour

waking

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present participle of wake entry 1

Examples of waking in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

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

Except now, without practices and position meetings and all the usual minutiae consuming every waking moment of a coach’s day, Williams has never had so much time. — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2020

Teens spend much of their waking time with peers and friends. — Catherine Bagwell, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1556, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing waking

• one's waking hours/moments
• waking hour/moment
• waking hours

Rhymes for waking

• aching
• baking
• braking
• breaking
• caking
• faking
• flaking
• making
• quaking
• raking
• shaking
• slaking