Usually means: Ripples following a moving object.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word wakes:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. wakes: Merriam-Webster
  2. wakes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wakes: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Wakes, wakes: Vocabulary.com
  5. Wake's, Wakes, wakes: Wordnik
  6. wakes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. wakes: Wiktionary
  8. wakes: Dictionary.com
  9. wakes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. The Wakes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. wakes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wakes: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wakes: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wakes)

▸ noun:  A community holiday, particularly in northern England.

Similar:
waken, wake up, awaken, arouse, come alive, backwash, viewing, awake, aftermath, Wake Island, more...

Phrases:
wakes up, wakes up and smell the coffee, Leviathan Wakes, The Kraken Wakes, Wakes week, more...



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waken, wake up, awaken, arouse, come alive, backwash, viewing, awake, aftermath, Wake Island, more...

Phrases:
wakes up, wakes up and smell the coffee, Leviathan Wakes, The Kraken Wakes, Wakes week, violently wakes you up, suddenly wakes up, more...



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