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Vigil vs Memorial - What's the difference?

vigil | memorial |

As nouns the difference between vigil and memorial

is that vigil is a watch kept during normal sleeping hours, especially over the body of a recently deceased or dying person while memorial is a structure, such as a monument, intended to celebrate the memory of a person or event.

As an adjective memorial is

serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.

vigil

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A watch kept during normal sleeping hours, especially over the body of a recently deceased or dying person.
  • A period of observation or surveillance.
  • The eve of some religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.

    • Synonyms

    * lookout, look-out, qui vive, watch

    Related terms

    * vigilance * vigilant

    memorial

    English

    (wikipedia memorial)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A structure, such as a monument, intended to celebrate the memory of a person or event
  • A service of remembrance or commemoration
  • (legal) a statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc .

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.
    • a memorial building
  • * Alexander Pope
    • There high in air, memorial of my name, / Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame.
  • Contained in the memory.
    • a memorial possession
  • Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
  • * Skeat
    • This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH.