/əˈwɛə(ɹ)/, /əˈwɛɚ/, /əˈweːɹ/
OriginFrom Middle English aware, iwar, iware, ywar, from Old English ġewær (“aware”), from Proto-West Germanic *gawar, from Proto-Germanic *waraz (“aware, cautious”), from Proto-Indo-European *worós (“attentive”), from *wer- (“to heed; watch out”). Cognate with Dutch gewaar, German gewahr, Danish var, Swedish var, Icelandic varr.
- Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
“Stay aware! Don't let your guard down.”
- Conscious or having knowledge of something; awake.
“Are you aware of what is being said about you?”
“Gotta get going. I wasn’t aware that it was already so late.”
““[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any”
- nonstandard, transitiveTo make (someone) aware of something.
“Conſcience is the director of all our actions, and diſcriminates them all, with the intentions of our hearts; awares us of the crime of the one, and the virtue of the other.”
Formsmore aware(comparative) · awarer(comparative) · most aware(superlative) · awarest(superlative) · awares(present, singular, third-person) · awaring(participle, present) · awared(participle, past) · awared(past)