# wakeup

Pronunciation: say "WAYK-up" /ˈweɪkˌʌp/

## Noun

1. The act of waking from sleep, or a single occasion of waking.
   - Simple: The act of waking from sleep, or one time that you wake.
   - _After a groggy wakeup, he stumbled to the kitchen for coffee._
   - _New parents quickly get used to frequent nighttime wakeups._
2. An occasion of being woken by someone or something, such as a call arranged to wake a person at a set time.
   - Simple: A time when someone or something wakes you, like a phone call at a time you asked for.
   - _She booked a 5:30 wakeup with the front desk so she wouldn't miss her flight._
   - _A garbage truck under the window gave us an unwelcome wakeup at dawn._
3. The northern flicker, the bird Colaptes auratus.
   - Simple: A bird called the northern flicker.
   - _A wakeup was hammering at the dead elm behind the barn._
   - _Every spring a pair of wakeups nests in the hollow fence post by the road._

## Origin

Formed from the verb wake up.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/wakeup (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).