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See also: Aware

English

Etymology

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, Swedish var, Icelandic varr.

Pronunciation

Adjective

aware (comparative more aware or awarer, superlative most aware or awarest)

  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.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      “ […] 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.
    • 1956 September, “Notes and News: The Barby Sidings Accident Report”, in Railway Magazine, page 638:
      The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.
    • 2025 April 28, Ross Douthat, Nick Adams, “Condition of America”, in New Left Review‎, number 152, →ISSN:
      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.

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Verb

aware (third-person singular simple present awares, present participle awaring, simple past and past participle awared)

  1. (transitive, nonstandard) To make (someone) aware of something.
    • 1799, William Earle, Junior, Natural Faults: A Comedy, in Five Acts, London: […] sold by Earle and Hemet […], [Act II, scene i], page 17:
      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.
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Japanese

Romanization

aware

  1. Rōmaji transcription of あわれ

Kari'na

Etymology

From Cariban languages compare Trió aware, Wayana awale, Akawaio aware, Pemon aware, Ye'kwana yawade / dhawade, and from non-Cariban languages compare Lokono jaware, Sranan Tongo awari, Yanomamö aware.

Pronunciation

Noun

aware (possessed jawarery)

  1. the common opossum, Didelphis marsupialis
  2. used as a strong insult when applied to people

References

  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008), A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 248
  • Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931), “aware”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 122; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎, Paris, 1956, page 122

Yanomamö

Etymology

Compare Kari'na aware, Trió aware, Wayana awale, Akawaio aware, Pemon aware, Ye'kwana yawade / dhawade, Lokono jaware, Sranan Tongo awari.

Noun

aware

  1. the common opossum, Didelphis marsupialis

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