aweとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

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

名詞

awe (usually uncountable, 複数形 awes)

1. A feeling of fear and reverence.
   • 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 172:

     Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.

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.

派生語

動詞

awe (三人称単数 現在形 awes, 現在分詞 awing または aweing, 過去形および過去分詞形 awed)

1. (transitive) To inspire fear and reverence in.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎^[2]:

     That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.

2. (transitive) To control by inspiring dread.

同意語

• (inspire reverence): enthral, enthrall; overwhelm

派生語

• awed