awe

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see also: Awe

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Pronunciation

• • enPR: ô, IPA: /ɔː/
  • (America) enPR: ô, IPA: /ɔ/
• (cot-caught) enPR: ä, IPA: /ɑ/

Noun

awe (uncountable)

1. A feeling of fear and reverence.
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.

Translations

• French: crainte, révérence
• German: Ehrfurcht
• Italian: timore
• Portuguese: temor
• Russian: благогове́ние
• Spanish: pavor, temor

Translations

• French: admiration
• Portuguese: espanto
• Russian: изумле́ние
• Spanish: asombro

Verb

awe (awes, present participle awing; past and past participle awed)

1. (transitive) To inspire fear and reverence in.
2. (transitive) To control by inspiring dread.

Synonyms

• (inspire reverence) enthral, enthrall; overwhelm

Translations

• Russian: внуша́ть тре́пет
• Spanish: asombrar, abrumar

Translations

• German: einschüchtern

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Awe

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Proper noun

1. Surname

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