aware
adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//əˈwɛə//
- United Kingdom/[əˈwɛə̯] ~ [əˈwɛː]/
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- Australia//əˈweː//
- //əˈweə//
Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
adjective
- 1
Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
Stay aware! Don't let your guard down.
- 2
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 payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.
Americans are not libertarians in the Cato Institute sense of the word, but they are folk libertarians in this sense of impulsive behaviour, which is a feature of American life that anyone who wants to govern the United States, Democratic or Republican, has to be aware of.
Etymology
Inherited from 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.
verb
- 1
To 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.
Forms
- comparative
- more aware, awarer
- superlative
- most aware, awarest
- past tense
- awared
- past participle
- awared
- present participle
- awaring
- third person singular
- awares
aware · Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
awareness · The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be…away · From a place, hence.awe · A feeling of fear and reverence.