awakeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English awake, a shortened form of awaken (“awakened, awake”), past participle of Middle English awaken (“to awaken”). See verb below. Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”).

形容詞

awake (comparative more awake, superlative most awake) (predicative only)

1. Not asleep; conscious.
   • 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 86:

     By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.

   Synonyms: conscious, lucid, wide awake; see also Thesaurus:awake

   Antonyms: asleep, unconscious; see also Thesaurus:asleep

2. (figuratively, by extension) Alert, aware.

   Synonyms: wary, woke; see also Thesaurus:vigilant

   Antonyms: heedless, oblivious

   They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.

   • 1965 June, Martin Luther King, Jr., "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution"[1]:

     And so we see in our own world a revolution of rising expectations. The great challenge facing every individual graduating today is to remain awake through this social revolution.

派生語

• half-awake
• unawake

語源 2

From Middle English awaken and awakien, from 古期英語 āwacan and āwacian, equivalent to a- +‎ wake.

動詞

awake (third-person singular simple present awakes, present participle awaking, simple past awoke or (まれに) awaked, past participle awoken or (まれに) awaked or (まれに) awoke or (まれに) awaken)

1. (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.

   Synonyms: awaken, wake up; see also Thesaurus:wake

   Antonyms: fall asleep; see also Thesaurus:fall asleep

2. (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.

   Synonyms: bring round, cry, wake up; see also Thesaurus:awaken

   Antonym: put to sleep

   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “primum”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:

     Thenne she called the heremyte syre Vlfyn I am a gentylwoman that wold speke with the knyght whiche is with yow / Thenne the good man awaked Galahad / & badde hym aryse and speke with a gentylwoman that semeth hath grete nede of yow / Thenne Galahad wente to her & asked her what she wold

   • 1665 Robert Hooke, Micrographia

     [This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away...

3. (transitive) to excite or to stir up something latent.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
5. (intransitive, figuratively) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
   • 1867-1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England

     The national spirit again awoke.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Corinthians 15:34:

     Awake to righteousness, and sin not.

派生語

• awaker

使用する際の注意点

For many speakers, this verb is commonly conflated with awaken (かつ, in such cases, lends some conjugational elements to it). See the usage notes at awaken for more details.