aware

adj
/əˈwɛə(ɹ)/UK/əˈwɛɚ/US/əˈweːɹ/

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, Danish var, Swedish var, Icelandic varr.

  1. inherited from *gawar
  2. inherited from ġewær
  3. inherited from aware

Definitions

  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

    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.
  3. To make (someone) aware of something.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at aware. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at aware. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at aware

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA