vigilant

What it means

1. Watchful, especially for danger or disorder; alert; wary.

   Be vigilant for signs of disease in your garden.

   Synonyms: alert, aware, careful, circumspect, observant, on the qui vive, wakesome, wary

2. raregovernmentIn vigilance.

   [...] and sharing the same heraldry : argent, a crane, vigilant, or,[…]

   1997, Saint Thomas More, More to Cranevelt, Leuven University Press, →ISBN, page 23

   1 more example

   von der LUTKE / Argent, a crane vigilant proper. AG. Carl von der Lutke. Arr. 1857 with the British German Crimea legion. Obtained a grant of land in the Eastern Province of the Cape Colony.

   1972, C. Pama, Heraldry of South African Families: Coats of Arms/ Crests/ Ancestry

In a sentence

Be vigilant for signs of disease in your garden.

Where it comes from

1. Latinvigilans
2. Frenchvigilant
3. Englishvigilant

From French vigilant or its source, Latin vigilans, present participle of vigilare (“stay awake”), from vigil (“awake”). Doublet of vigilante, from Spanish. Displaced Old English wacor.