awe

From Old English eġe, influenced during Middle English by forms from the Old Norse cognate agi, both from Proto-Germanic *agaz. See also ey.

• In non-rhotic accents:
  • enPR: ô, IPA^(key): /ɔː/

  • (file)

  • Homophones: oar, or, ore, o'er
• In rhotic accents:
  • (US) enPR: ô, IPA^(key): /ɔ/

  • (file)

  • Homophone: aw
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: ä, IPA^(key): /ɑ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː

awe (usually uncountable, plural awes)

1. A feeling of fear and reverence.
   • 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, page 172:

     Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.

2. A feeling of amazement.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

     For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome by awe as was I. All about us was a flora and fauna as strange and wonderful to us as might have been those upon a distant planet had we suddenly been miraculously transported through ether to an unknown world.

3. (archaic) Power to inspire awe.

awe (third-person singular simple present awes, present participle awing or aweing, simple past and past participle awed)

1. (transitive) To inspire fear and reverence in.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎:

     That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.

2. (transitive) To control by inspiring dread.

• (inspire reverence): enthral, enthrall; overwhelm

• awed

• EAW, WAE, eaw, wae

awe (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. quickly, promptly.
2. soon

• arol

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

From Old English ēowu.

awe

1. Alternative form of ewe

From Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égʰos. Doublet of eye.

• aw, ahe, au, aue, aghe, age, aȝe

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /ˈaɣə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈau̯(ə)/
• Rhymes: -au̯(ə)

awe (uncountable)

1. awe, wonder, reverence
2. fear, horror
3. That which elicits or incites horror; something horrifying

• agheful
• aghlich (rare)
• awles (rare)
• awen (rare)

• English: awe
• Scots: awe, aw

• “aue (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-11.

• awé (alternative spelling)

From Portuguese hoje and Spanish hoy and Kabuverdianu ochi.

awe

1. today

• IPA^(key): /awə/

awe

1. yes