stay up

stay up (for something)

to remain awake and out of bed for some nighttime event. I will stay up for her arrival. I can't stay up that late.

1. To remain awake: I stayed up all night reading.

2. To remain on display: Their Christmas tree stayed up until February.

3. To remain well informed: They stay up on current trends by reading fashion magazines. I don't know how doctors stay up with all the new research.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Aengus	-	Irish
Friduric	-	Ancient Germanic
Eddy	ED-ee	English
Shaked	-	Hebrew
Bertha	BER-tah (German), BUR-thə (English)	German, English, Ancient Germanic
Zorka	-	Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian