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Aware

//əˈwɛə(ɹ)// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.

    "Stay aware! Don't let your guard down."

  2. 2
    Conscious or having knowledge of something; awake.

    "Are you aware of what is being said about you?"

Adjective
  1. 1
    (sometimes followed by ‘of’) having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception wordnet
  2. 2
    bearing in mind; attentive to wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To make (someone) aware of something. nonstandard, transitive

    "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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

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