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English
Etymology
Inherited 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, Danish var, Swedish var, Icelandic varr.
Pronunciation
Adjective
aware (comparative more aware or awarer, superlative most aware or awarest)
- Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
Stay aware! Don't let your guard down.
- 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[1], number 152, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 February 2026: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.
Synonyms
- (on one's guard): wary, watchful, sensitive, alert, attentive, observant
- (conscious of something): apprised, informed, cognizant, conscious, mindful, sensible (formal)
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Translations
vigilant, on one's guard
- Armenian: զգոն (hy) (zgon)
- Bulgarian: бдителен (bg) (bditelen)
- Catalan: vigilant (ca), a l’aguait, atent (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 警惕的 (jǐngtì de)
- Czech: bdělý (cs), ostražitý
- Dutch: waakzaam (nl), op zijn hoede
- Finnish: valpas (fi)
- French: attentif (fr), vigilant (fr), en éveil, en alerte, sur ses gardes (fr)
- German: wachsam (de), gewahr (de)
- Indonesian: waspada (id)
- Italian: all'erta
- Marathi: जागृत (jāgrut)
- Portuguese: alerta (pt)
- Russian: бди́тельный (ru) (bdítelʹnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: будан, budan (sh)
- Spanish: alerta (es)
- Tagalog: naiino, nakaiino
- Tatar: saq
- Turkish: uyanık (tr), ayık (tr)
- Ukrainian: пи́льний (pýlʹnyj)
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- Armenian: տեղյակ (hy) (teġyak), գիտակից (hy) (gitakicʻ)
- Azerbaijani: xəbərdar, agah (az), hali
- Belarusian: дасве́дчаны (dasvjédčany), ве́даючы (vjédajučy)
- Bulgarian: съзнаващ (bg) (săznavašt)
- Catalan: conscient (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 知道的 (zhīdào de), 意識到的 / 意识到的 (yìshídào de)
- Czech: vědom (cs), znalý
- Dutch: op de hoogte zijn
- Esperanto: konscia
- Finnish: tietoinen (fi)
- French: conscient (fr), au courant (fr)
- Galician: consciente (gl)
- German: bewusst (de), gewahr (de)
- Indonesian: insaf (id)
- Irish: eolach
- Italian: consapevole (it)
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ئاگادار (agadar)
- Latin: cōnscius
- Māori: aroā
- Old English: ġewær, ġecnǣwe
- Persian: آگاه (fa) (âgâh)
- Polish: świadom (pl), świadomy (pl)
- Portuguese: consciente (pt), ciente (pt)
- Russian: зна́ющий (ru) (znájuščij), осведомлённый (ru) (osvedomljónnyj), све́дущий (ru) (svéduščij), в ку́рсе (ru) (v kúrse)
- Scottish Gaelic: fiosrach
- Serbo-Croatian: свестан, svestan (sh), свестан, svjestan (sh)
- Spanish: consciente (es), cognoscente (es), cognoscitivo (es) (able to know), concienciado (es), concientizado (es)
- Swedish: medveten (sv)
- Tagalog: naiino, nakaiino
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: haberdar (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: خبردار (haberdâr)
- Ukrainian: зна́ючий (znájučyj), обі́знаний (uk) (obíznanyj)
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- Bulgarian: (please verify) осведомен (bg) (osvedomen); (please verify) който съзнава, усеща, чувствува, долавя, знае (kojto săznava, usešta, čuvstvuva, dolavja, znae)
- German: (please verify) bewusst (de), (please verify) gewahr (de), (please verify) gewärtig (de)
- Hungarian: (please verify) tudatában van (hu)
- Italian: (please verify) conscio (it), (please verify) consapevole (it)
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Verb
aware (third-person singular simple present awares, present participle awaring, simple past and past participle awared)
- (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.
Japanese
Romanization
aware
- 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)
- the common opossum, Didelphis marsupialis
- used as a strong insult when applied to people
References
- Courtz, Hendrik (2008), A Carib grammar and dictionary[2], 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[3], 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
- the common opossum, Didelphis marsupialis
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