"Wake" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

IPA: /ˈweɪk/
enPR: wāk Etymology: English and Scottish surname from Old Norse vakr (“vigilant, wakeful”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|non|vakr|t=vigilant, wakeful}} Old Norse vakr (“vigilant, wakeful”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Wake
  1. A surname.
    Sense id: en-Wake-en-name-EMUC1F3L Categories (other): English surnames
  2. Short for Wake County. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: Wake County Categories (place): United States
    Sense id: en-Wake-en-name-R-q4-vTk Disambiguation of United States: 10 61 29 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 66 33
  3. Short for Wake Island. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: Wake Island
    Sense id: en-Wake-en-name-oeoq0yNC
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Wake County, Wake Island, Wake's Island, Wake Islander, Wakes Colne

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          "text": "Mr. Boylan was public-spirited and progressive. He first saw the possibilities, and set the example of raising great quantities of cotton on the uplands of Wake.[...]Governor Swain says of him that he was dignified and grave, and it also is sure that he must have been charitable, for he is responsible for the building of the first county poor-house in Wake.",
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          "text": "Trade with the Indians. — There is every likelihood that the brisk trade that flourished between the settlers on the coast and the Indians in the interior, both before and after the Tuscarora War, included trade in and through the woods of Wake. Although the “Trading Path to the Indians” described by William Byrd in 1728 when surveying the Virginia-Carolina dividing line passed to the north and west of Wake, there was trading through Wake’s forests. The celebrated “Green’s Path” from eastern Virginia toward the southward lay along portions of the present boundary line between Wake and Johnston counties; and the “Pee Dee Trail” traversed southern Wake County on its east-west route between Johnston and Chatham counties.",
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          "text": "At the other end of the spectrum, Guilford County consistently displayed school- and classroom-level segregation indexes well above the state average. In a district where approximately half of all students were nonwhite, the average white student at all grade levels sat in a classroom where fewer than a third of the pupils were nonwhite. In other words, the typical white student in Guilford attended classes with nearly the same racial composition as the typical white student in Wake despite the fact that the overall percentage of nonwhite students in Guilford was 13 points higher.",
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