awake in English: Not sleeping, with your eyes open. (adjective)

Translation

Not sleeping, with your eyes open.

Word origin

From Old English awacian, meaning to wake up or come out of sleep.

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"Awake" means not sleeping.

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"Stay awake" means not fall asleep.

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Here "awake" describes lying in bed without sleeping.

sleep

To rest with your eyes closed and your mind not awake, the way you do at night.

wake

To stop sleeping and open your eyes, or to make someone else stop sleeping.

night

The dark part of each day, when the sun is down and people sleep.

bed

A soft, flat thing that you lie on to sleep at night.

eye

One of the two parts of your face that you use to see.

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