Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Time during which one is awake. Mrs. Browning, Aurora Leigh, ii.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Time during which one is awake.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The time when one wakes.

Etymologies

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wake +‎ time

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Examples

  • But anyway, so I had some ideas about it, like making sure I didn't eat later than 8. 30pm (never happens (ever) because I always eat the other meals so late), and forcing a strict bedtime and waketime, no matter if I could sleep or not.

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2002

  • I could probably pull myself together a bit more, and be stricter about bedtime and waketime, but to be honest I feel a bit depressed late at night and going to bed feels like the most depressing thing in the world at the time, so I put it off and put it off.

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2002

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