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awe
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What does awe mean?
noun
- A feeling of fear and reverence.
- A feeling of amazement.
verb
- To inspire fear and reverence in.
More meanings (6)
verb
- To control by inspiring dread.
proper noun
- A surname.
- A short river between Loch Awe and Loch Etive, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland; in full, the River Awe.
- The station code of AsiaWorld–Expo in Hong Kong.
noun
- (archaic) Power to inspire awe.
- (obsolete) A bucket (blade) attached to water wheels.
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IPA pronunciation
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Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before.
We conversed in low tones, when we conversed at all, as the awe of the grim shadow of death crept over us.
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Together Filippo and Diamante stood and watched with awe, learning lessons there which the good father had not been able to teach.
There is a view of the character of man, calculated more perhaps than any other to impress us with reverence and awe.
His countenance was therefore fully displayed, and its expression was calculated to impress a degree of awe, if not of fear, upon strangers.