[wahyd-uh-weyk] 
| 1. | fully awake; with the eyes wide open. |
| 2. | alert, keen, or knowing: a wide-awake young woman. |
| 3. | Also called wide-awake hat. a soft, low-crowned felt hat. |
| 4. | the sooty tern. |
| a black and white tern, Sterna fuscata, of small tropical islands. |
| sooty tern n. A tern (Sterna fuscata) found along most tropical coasts, having black plumage above and white below. Also called wide-awake. |
| wide-a·wake (wīd'ə-wāk') adj.
wide'a·wake'ness n. |