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Definition: AWOKE |
AWOKEImperative1. Of Awake |
Date "AWOKE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Crosswords: AWOKE |
| English words defined with "AWOKE": belatedly, betimes, burst ♦ clarity, clearness ♦ early, explosion ♦ jump ♦ late ♦ start, startle, stiffness ♦ tardily ♦ uncloudedness, undoer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "AWOKE": Gyneth. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum shadow and flame. (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) 10 Centuries later, we awoke to a world bent on our destruction. (Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles; writing credit: Julia Lewald; Brooks Wachtel) | |
Lyrics | I awoke last night to the sound of thunder (Night Moves; performing artist: BOB SEGER; writing credit: Bob Seger) We awoke from our dream (Can We Still Be Friends; performing artist: Todd Rundgren) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | If Rip Van Winkle just awoke from a twenty year snooze. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
John Bunyan | So I awoke, and behold it was a dream. |
Lord Byron | I awoke one morning and found myself famous. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | A very, very brief time, and you will dismiss the recollection of it, gladly, as an unprofitable dream, from which it happened well that you awoke. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | When the intellect awoke and saw this act of the brute, Jean Valjean recoiled in anguish and uttered a cry of horror. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | When he awoke the train had passed out of Mallow and his father was stretched asleep on the other seat. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I awoke to an answered question, to Nature and daylight. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "AWOKE" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 99.73% of the time. "AWOKE" is used about 371 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 99.73% | 370 | 14,662 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 0.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 371 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
awoke | 9 |
aster awoke | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "AWOKE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | يقظ (alert, awake, careful, circumspect, jaunty, lively, mindful, napless, observant, on duty, open-eyed, prompt, springy, vigilant, wakeful, wary, watchful, wide awake), متنبه (alert, awake, mindful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пробуждам се. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | ' (Awake, Awaked, Awaking, Awoken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | min.èas od awake. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hän kavahti unestaan (he awoke with a start). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | éveillé (awake, wide awake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | geweckt (roused), erwachte (woke, woke up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξύπνησα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felébredt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | svegliato (woken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 각성했다 (Awaked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | awokeay trecut de la awake. (various references) prošlo vreme od awake. (various references) pret y pp de awake. (various references) vaknade (woke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 9, Verse 24 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Exenhyen de nwe apo tou oinou kai egnw osa epoihsen autw o uioV autou o newteroV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Evigilans autem Noe ex vino cum didicisset quae fecerat ei filius suus minor |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Noe soðlice ða ða he awoc of ðam slæpe, ond he ofaxode hwæt his suna him dydon, |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Noe forsothe wakynge of the wyn, whan he had lerned the thingis that his yonger sone dide to hym, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | As soone as Noe was awaked fro his wyne and wyst what his yongest sonne had done vnto hym |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he said, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 9, Verse 24 |
| Cebuano | Ug nahigmata si Noe gikan sa iyang vino ug nahibalo siya sa gibuhat kaniya sa iyang anak nga lalake nga kamanghuran. |
| Chinese | 挪 亞 ' 了 ' 、 知 " 小 ' 子 向 他 所 作 的 事 、 |
| Croatian | Kad se Noa otrijeznio od vina i saznao što mu je uèinio najmlaði sin, reèe: |
| Danish | Da Noa vågnede af sin Rus og fik at vide, hvad hans yngste Søn havde gjort ved ham, |
| Dutch | En Noach ontwaakte van zijn wijn; en hij merkte wat zijn kleinste zoon hem gedaan had. |
| Finnish | Kun Nooa heräsi päihtymyksestänsä ja sai tietää, mitä hänen nuorin poikansa oli hänelle tehnyt, |
| French | Lorsque Noé se réveilla de son vin, il apprit ce que lui avait fait son fils cadet. |
| German | Als nun Noah erwachte von seinem Wein und erfuhr, was ihm sein jüngster Sohn getan hatte, |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Lè Noe soti anba toudisman diven l' lan, yo di l' sa dezyèm pitit gason l' lan te fè l'. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Setelah Nuh sadar dari mabuknya dan mengetahui apa yang diperbuat anak bungsunya terhadap dirinya, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hata, maka Nuhpun sadarlah dari pada mabuknya, lalu diketahuinyalah akan perbuatan anaknya yang bungsu itu kepadanya. |
| Italian | Quando Noè si fu risvegliato dall'ebbrezza, seppe quanto gli aveva fatto il figlio minore; |
| Maori | ¶ Na ka maranga ake a Noa i tana waina, ka mohio ki ta tana potiki i mea ai ki a ia. |
| Norwegian | Da så Noah våknet av sitt rus, fikk han vite hvad hans yngste sønn hadde gjort imot ham. |
| Portuguese | Despertado que foi Noé do seu vinho, soube o que seu filho mais moço lhe fizera; |
| Rumanian | Noe s`a trezit din ameyeala vinului, wi a aflat ce -i fqcuse fiul squ cel mai tknqr. |
| Russian | оПК ТПУ БМУС ПФ ЧЙОБ УЧПЕЗП Й ХЪОБМ, ЮФП У"ЕМБМ ОБ" ОЙН НЕОШЫЙК УЩО ЕЗП, |
| Swedish | När sedan Noa vaknade upp från ruset och fick veta vad hans yngste son hade gjort honom, sade han: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "AWOKE": awoken. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "AWOKE": reawoke. (additional references) | |
Words containing "AWOKE": reawoken. (additional references) | |
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"AWOKE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adoce, adoke, Adoko, ajoke, Aloka, amoke, anoke, aowe, aroke, asok, Asoke, Avokea, awaka, awaker, aweek, awike, Awka, awke, awo, awobe, awoc, awoe, awok, ayak, ewoks, Iwonka, Masoke, matooke, Nwoke. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "AWOKE" (pronounced uwō"k) |
| 3 | -w ō" k | woke. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-o-w" | |
-1 letter: wake, weak, weka, woke. | |
-2 letters: awe, kae, kea, koa, oak, oka, oke, owe, wae, woe, wok. | |
-3 letters: ae, aw, ka, oe, ow, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-k-o-w" | |
+1 letter: awoken. | |
+2 letters: reawoke, wackoes. | |
+3 letters: beadwork, capework, casework, cookware, hawknose, headwork, knowable, lacework, leadwork, overweak, reawoken, ropewalk, seatwork, takedown, teakwood, teamwork, walkover, workable, workfare, workmate. | |
+4 letters: beadworks, breakdown, capeworks, caseworks, cookwares, earthwork, falsework, framework, hawknoses, headworks, laceworks, leadworks, metalwork, outwalked, paperwork, ropewalks, seatworks, shakedown, snowflake, snowmaker, spadework, takedowns, teakwoods, teamworks, walkovers, womanlike, workfares, workmates, workplace, worktable. | |
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