Usually means: Profound reverence, wonder, or fear.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word awe:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. awe: Merriam-Webster
  2. awe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. awe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. awe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. awe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Awe, awe: Wordnik
  7. awe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Awe, awe: Wiktionary
  9. awe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. awe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. awe: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Awe, awe: Dictionary.com
  13. awe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. awe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. AWE (TV network), AWE, Awe (disambiguation), Awe (emotion), Awe (film), Awe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Awe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. awe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. awe: Rhymezone
  19. awe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. awe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. AWE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. awe: FreeDictionary.org
  23. awe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. awe: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. awe: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. awe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  27. awe: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. awe: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AWE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. AWE: CCI Computer
  3. AWE: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AWE: Acronym Finder
  2. AWE: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. awe: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Awe: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See awed as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A feeling of fear and reverence.
▸ noun:  A feeling of amazement.
▸ noun:  (archaic) Power to inspire awe.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To inspire fear and reverence in.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To control by inspiring dread.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A bucket (blade) attached to water wheels.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  The River Awe, a short river between Loch Awe and Loch Etive, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland.
▸ noun:  (rail transport) The station code of AsiaWorld–Expo in Hong Kong.

Similar:
reverence, veneration, dread, fear, creeps, affright, feare, ghastness, affrightment, awrath, more...

Opposite:
indifference, disdain, contempt, boredom, disinterest

Types:
wonder, amazement, fear, respect, reverence, sublimity, more...

Phrases:
awe inspiring, Loch Awe, awe inspired, awe struck, awe stricken, more...

Adjectives:
religious, great, superstitious, reverential, such, certain, silent, reverent, much, solemn, holy

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    gold,     silver,     sapphire,     emerald,     amethyst, more...


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Similar:
reverence, veneration, dread, fear, creeps, affright, feare, ghastness, affrightment, awrath, more...

Opposite:
indifference, disdain, contempt, boredom, disinterest

Types:
wonder, amazement, fear, respect, reverence, sublimity, more...

Phrases:
awe inspiring, Loch Awe, awe inspired, awe struck, awe stricken, Days of Awe, shock and awe, to stand in awe of, awe strike, in awe of, stand in awe, Helm of Awe, Sock and Awe, in awe, inspiring awe, said in awe, more...

Adjectives:
religious, great, superstitious, reverential, such, certain, silent, reverent, much, solemn, holy

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     sapphire,     emerald,     amethyst, more...



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