Noun vigil has 3 senses
  1. vigil - a period of sleeplessness
    --1 is a kind of
    wakefulness
  2. vigil, watch - a devotional watch (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
    --2 is a kind of rite, religious rite
    --2 has particulars: wake, viewing; agrypnia
  3. watch, vigil - a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
    --3 is a kind of surveillance
    --3 has particulars: listening watch, continuous receiver watch; spying
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