Awe in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Awe

You can make 8 words from 'awe' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'awe'
• 2 letters words from 'awe'

3 letters words from 'awe'

AWE 6

WAE 6

2 letters words from 'awe'

AE 2	AW 5
EA 2	EW 5
WE 5

Definitions and meaning of awe

awe

Etymology

From Middle English aw, awe, agh, awȝe, borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“terror, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be upset, afraid”). Displaced native Middle English eye, eyȝe, ayȝe, eȝȝe, from Old English ege, æge (“fear, terror, dread”), from the same Proto-Germanic root.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ô, IPA^(key): /ɔː/
• (US) enPR: ô, IPA^(key): /ɔ/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: ä, IPA^(key): /ɑ/
• Homophone: aw
  • (in non-rhotic accents): oar, or, ore, o'er
• Rhymes: -ɔː

Noun

awe (usually uncountable, plural awes)

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.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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.
2. (transitive) To control by inspiring dread.

Synonyms

• (inspire reverence): enthral, enthrall; overwhelm

Derived terms

• awed

Translations

Anagrams

• AEW, EAW, WAE, WEA, eaw, wae

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Mapudungun

Adverb

awe (Raguileo spelling)

1. quickly, promptly.
2. soon

Synonyms

• arol

References

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

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ēowu.

Noun

awe

1. Alternative form of ewe

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• aw, ahe, au, aue, aghe, age, aȝe

Pronunciation

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

Noun

awe (uncountable)

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

Related terms

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

Descendants

• English: awe
• Scots: awe, aw

References

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

Etymology 3

From Old English onweġ, aweġ.

Adverb

awe

1. Alternative form of away

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Papiamentu

Alternative forms

• awé (alternative spelling)

Etymology

From Portuguese hoje and Spanish hoy and Kabuverdianu ochi.

Pronoun

awe

1. today

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Swahili

Verb

awe

1. inflection of -wa:
   1. third-person singular subjunctive affirmative
   2. m-wa class subject inflected singular subjunctive affirmative

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Tabaru

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.we]

Noun

awe

1. a thread

References

• Edward A. Kotynski (1988), “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics

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Western Arrernte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /awə/

Interjection

awe

1. yes

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Yoruba

Etymology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /à.wé/

Noun

àwé

1. (Ekiti) friend

Source: wiktionary.org

• to strike with fear.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)