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Definition: Awakening |
AwakeningNoun1. The act of waking; "it was an early awakening"; "it was the waking up he hated most". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "awakening" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1642. (references) |
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Nuclear Energy & Physics | MSK seismic intensity scale V. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: AwakeningSynonyms: wakening (n), waking up (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Awakening |
| English words defined with "awakening": arousal, Awakenment ♦ Evigilation ♦ Objective point. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "awakening": Dying ♦ Vexed ♦ Water. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "awakening": Awaken. (references) |
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Screenplays | I was not awakened when I gave orders for awakening. (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rude Awakening (2002) The Awakening Mackenzie (1958) Strange Awakening (1958) Canada's Awakening North (1951) The Awakening (1938) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Rude awakening from a dream of conquest. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The fading dream, or the rude awakening. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The awakening. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "The awakening of Egypt," a national monument in the Place Midan El-Mahatta, and the Cairo Railway Station, Egypt. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Sir Walter Scott | Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening. |
| Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | Today it is a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him for later professional training, and in helping him to adjust normally to his environment. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1949) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | An awakening of conscience is greatness of soul. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Grampa grunted and fought weakly against awakening, and when he was finally settled he went deeply to sleep again. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The symptoms often exhibit circadian rhythmicity in their peak occurrence during awakening hours. (references) | |
Immediately after awakening from the treatment, the patient experiences confusion, transient memory loss, and headache. (references) | ||
People with sleep apnea should never take sedatives or sleeping pills, which can prevent them from awakening enough to breathe. (references) | ||
Economic History | Estonia | Estonia was caught in a current of national awakening that began sweeping through Europe in the mid-1800s. (references) |
Estonia | These moves created the economic foundation for the Estonian national cultural awakening that had lain dormant for some 600 years of foreign rule. (references) | |
South Korea | Historically, Korea was a part of China's "tribute" system under which Korea maintained its independence but recognized China as a "cultural superior." Although the isolationist policies of the Yi court allowed the Choseon dynasty to maintain stability, the country fell behind international developments and subsequently was given a rude awakening to the new world order that existed in the latter half of the 19th century. (references) | |
Indigenous People | India | The Jharkhand Adivasi Chhatra Sangh has called for "ulgulan" (mass awakening) to fight for the cause of the tribals and to demand a 60 percent reservation for tribals in jobs and education, despite the fact that Jharkhand's tribal population make up only 27 percent of the population. (references) |
Women | Taiwan | NGO's involved with women's issues include the Taiwan Women's Rescue Foundation and the Women Awakening Foundation, which help female victims of domestic violence; and the Garden of Hope Foundation, which helps rescue child prostitutes. (references) |
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| "Awakening" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.70% of the time. "Awakening" is used about 178 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.7% | 165 | 24,305 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 6.74% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 178 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "awakening". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Ar | N/A | Biblical | Awakening |
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Expressions using "awakening": a rude awakening ♦ premature awakening ♦ rude awakening. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "awakening": awakening-of-lesbian-desires. | |
Ending with "awakening": re-awakening. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "awakening"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zgjim (arousal, rising, rouse, rousing, stirring up, waking), humbje e iluzioneve, hapje e syve. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نهضة (rebirth, renaissance, renewal, revival, rising), إيقاظ (reveille). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пробуждане (arousal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "' (Awaken, Awakened). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | probuzení (shake up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sovende vaekkes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | herätyksen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | réveil des dormeurs, naissant, éveil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | erwachen (awake, awaken, be awake, come to, dawn, to awake, wake, wake up, waked, waken, woken), aufrüttelnd (arousing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αφύπνιση κοιμωμένων, αφύπνιση (disenchantment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מקיץ (arousing), מעיר (arousing, remarking), "תעוררות (animation, rally, waking up), "ת ערות (shaking oneself). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ébredés (arousal, waking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penggugahan (arousing), kebangunan (renaissance, uprising). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | risveglio dei dormienti, risveglio (revival). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 覚' (awake, disillusion, waking up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かくせい (awake, cleaning up, disillusion, previous age, purging, purification, waking up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 깨움 (Arousing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | moostey (awaken suddenly; starting, conjuring, raise, rouse, start). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | awakeningay ato de acordar, despertar do sono, despertar (accelerate, arouse, awake, awaken, quicken, rouse, to wake, wake, wake up, waken). (various references) trezire (sobriety, wakening), deşteptãtor (alarm clock, alarum, call bell). (various references) пробуждение (arousal, wakening). (various references) buđenje (evocation, revival, rousing, wakening). (various references) sacudida capaz de despertar a las personas, despertar (arousal, arouse, awake, awaken, draw, get up, knock up, revive, rouse, wake, wake up, waken), despertamiento (revival). (various references) väckning (automatic wake-up). (various references) uykudan kalkma, uyanma (dawn, renaissance, shake up, waking up), uyandıran (provoking), uyanış (renaissance, renascense, revival, shake up, wakening, waking up), ikaz (caution, caveat, commination, monition, notice, tip off, warning). (various references) пробудження (arousal, revival, wakening, waking). (various references) deffroad (waking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | resurrectio, suscitatio. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | 1 Kings Chapter 3, Verse 15 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai exupnisqh salwmwn kai idou enupnion kai anesth kai paraginetai eiV ierousalhm kai esth kata proswpon tou qusiasthriou tou kata proswpon kibwtou diaqhkhV kuriou en siwn kai anhgagen olokautwseiV kai epoihsen eirhnikaV kai epoihsen poton megan eautw kai pasin toiV paisin autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Igitur evigilavit Salomon et intellexit quod esset somnium cumque venisset Hierusalem stetit coram arca foederis Domini et obtulit holocausta et fecit victimas pacificas et grande convivium universis famulis suis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thanne Salomon wook vp, and vndurstood that it was a sweuen. And whanne he was comen to Jerusalem, he stood before the arke of the boond of pees of the Lord, and offride brent sacrifices, and made slayn pesible sacrifices, and a greet feste to alle his seruauntis. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt-offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Solomon, awakening, saw that it was a dream; then he came to Jerusalem, where he went before the ark of the agreement of the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings; and he made a feast for all his servants. |
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| Language | 1 Kings Chapter 3, Verse 15 |
| Cebuano | Ug si Salomon nahigmata; ug, ania karon, kadto usa ka damgo: ug siya miadto sa Jerusalem, ug mitindog sa atubangan sa arca sa tugon ni Jehova, ug naghalad ug mga halad-nga-sinunog, ug mga halad-sa-pakigdait, ug naghimo ug usa ka kombira sa tanan niyang mga ulipon. |
| Croatian | Salomon se probudi, i gle: bijaše to san. On se vrati u Jeruzalem i stade pred Kovèeg saveza Jahvina; prinese paljenice i žrtve prièesnice i priredi gozbu svim slugama svojim. |
| Danish | Da vågnede Salomo, og se, det var en Drøm. Derpå begav han sig til Jerusalem og stillede sig foran HERRENs Pagts Ark og ofrede Brændofre, bragte Takofre og gjorde et Gæstebud for alle sine Folk. |
| Dutch | En Salomo waakte op, en ziet, het was een droom. En hij kwam te Jeruzalem, en stond voor de ark des verbonds des HEEREN, en offerde brandofferen, en bereidde dankofferen, en maakte een maaltijd voor al zijn knechten. |
| Finnish | Siihen Salomo heräsi; ja katso, se oli unta. Ja kun hän tuli Jerusalemiin, astui hän Herran liitonarkin eteen, uhrasi polttouhreja ja toimitti yhteysuhrin ja laittoi pidot kaikille palvelijoillensa. |
| French | Salomon s`éveilla. Et voil le songe. Salomon revint Jérusalem, et se présenta devant l`arche de l`alliance de l`Éternel. Il offrit des holocaustes et des sacrifices d`actions de grâces, et il fit un festin tous ses serviteurs. |
| German | Und da Salomo erwachte, siehe, da war es ein Traum. Und er kam gen Jerusalem und trat vor die Lade des Bundes des HERRN und opferte Brandopfer und Dankopfer und machte ein großes Mahl allen seinen Knechten. |
| Haitian Creole | Lè Salomon leve, li vin konprann Bondye te pale avè l' nan rèv. Li tounen lavil Jerizalèm, l' ale devan Bwat Kontra Seyè a, li ofri bèt pou yo boule nèt, bèt pou yo touye pou di Seyè a mèsi. Apre sa, li bay yon gwo fèt pou tout moun k'ap travay nan gouvènman l' lan. |
| Hungarian | És mikor felserkent Salamon, ímé álom volt. És méne Jeruzsálembe, és álla az Úr szövetségének ládája elé, és áldozék egészen égõáldozatokat, és készíte hálaáldozatokat, és szerze nagy lakomát minden szolgáinak. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Setelah bangun, Salomo menyadari bahwa Allah telah berbicara kepadanya di dalam mimpi. Maka kembalilah ia ke Yerusalem lalu berdiri di depan Peti Perjanjian TUHAN dan mempersembahkan kurban bakaran dan kurban perdamaian. Kemudian ia mengadakan pesta untuk semua pegawainya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah itu maka sadarlah raja Sulaiman dari pada tidurnya, heran, maka ia itu mimpi juga adanya. Maka pergilah baginda ke Yeruzalem, lalu berdirilah baginda di hadapan tabut perjanjian Tuhan dan dipersembahkannya beberapa korban bakaran dan disediakannya beberapa korban syukur dan dibuatnya suatu perjamuan akan segala hambanya. |
| Maori | Na ka oho ake a Horomona, na, he moemoea: a haere ana ia ki Hiruharama, ka tu ki mua i te aaka o te kawenata a Ihowa, tapaea ana e ia he tahunga tinana, a meatia ana e ia he whakahere mo te pai, i tuku hoki i te hakari ma ana tangata katoa. |
| Norwegian | Da våknet Salomo, og han skjønte at det var en drøm. Og da han kom til Jerusalem, trådte han frem for Herrens pakts-ark og ofret brennoffer og bar frem takkoffer og gjorde et gjestebud for alle sine tjenere. |
| Portuguese | Então Salomão acordou, e eis que era sonho. E, voltando ele a Jerusalém, pôs-se diante da arca do pacto do Senhor, sacrificou holocaustos e preparou sacrifícios pacíficos, e deu um banquete a todos os seus servos. |
| Rumanian | Solomon s`a dewteptat. Acesta a fost visul. Solomon s`a kntors la Ierusalim, wi s`a knfqyiwat knaintea chivotului legqmkntului Domnului. A adus arderi de tot wi jertfe de mulyqmire, wi a dat un ospqy tuturor slujitorilor lui. |
| Swedish | Därefter vaknade Salomo och fann att det var en dröm. Och när han kom till Jerusalem, trädde han fram inför Herrens förbundsark och offrade brännoffer och frambar tackoffer; och därefter gjorde han ett gästabud för alla sina tjänare. |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "awakening": reawakening. (additional references) | |
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"Awakening" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aalenian, awakenen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "awakening" (pronounced uwā"kuning) |
| 8 | u w ā" k u n i ng | reawakening. |
| 5 | -k u n i ng | beckoning, blackening, darkening, likening, quickening, reckoning, sickening, slackening, thickening, weakening. |
| 4 | -u n i ng | abandoning, apportioning, auctioning, auditioning, bargaining, battening, bludgeoning, brightening, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, captioning, cautioning, championing, cheapening, christening, coarsening, commissioning, conditioning, cushioning, dampening, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, determining, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, enlightening, envisioning, examining, fashioning, fastening, fattening, flattening, freshening, frightening, functioning, gardening, glistening, happening, hardening, hastening, heartening, heightening, imagining, imprisoning, jettisoning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, listening, loosening, maddening, malfunctioning, margining, mentioning, motioning, opening, orphaning, pardoning, partitioning, petitioning, poisoning, positioning, provisioning, questioning, rationing, reasoning, reconditioning, reexamining, reopening, repositioning, ripening, ruining, saddening, sanctioning, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, siphoning, softening, stationing, stiffening, straightening, strengthening, summoning, sweetening, threatening, tightening, toughening, unquestioning, vacationing, whitening, widening, worsening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-k-n-n-w" | |
-1 letter: wakening. | |
-2 letters: awaking, wanigan, weaning. | |
-3 letters: ananke, angina, awaken, aweing, awning, waking, wangan, waning. | |
-4 letters: again, awake, awing, eking, gnawn, inane, kiang, waken, wigan. | |
-5 letters: agin, akin, anew, anga, anna, gaen, gain, gane, gawk, gien, gink, gnaw, kain, kana, kane, kina, kine, king, knew, naan, nana, nine, wage, wain, wake, wane, weak, wean, weka, wine. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-i-k-n-n-w" | |
+2 letters: reawakening. | |
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