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awesome

Pronunciation: /ˈɔːsəm/

The English word “awesome” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement.
  2. Excellent, exciting, remarkable.

noun

  1. A person who is awesome.

Etymology

From awe + -some; compare earlier awful and Middle English eiful (“inducing fright or terror, terrible”), from Old English eġeful (“fearful; inspiring awe”). The oldest meaning of awesome is of “something which inspires awe”, but the word is now also a common colloquial expression. It was originally so used in the United States, where it had featured strikingly in the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!,…

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