- feelings of respect and slight fear; feelings of being very impressed by something/somebody
- awe and respect
- awe and wonder
- with awe He speaks of her with awe.
- in awe ‘It's magnificent,’ she whispered in awe.
Extra Examples- Most people hold him in some awe.
- I stared at the clouds, in awe of their beauty.
- They experienced a tremendous sense of awe in the cathedral.
- What I mostly felt was awe at her achievement.
- They gazed in awe at the beauty of the scene.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- great
- be in
- hold somebody in
- stand in
- …
- in awe
- with awe
- awe at
- …
- in awe of somebody/something
- a sense of awe
Word OriginOld English ege ‘terror, dread, awe’, replaced in Middle English by forms related to Old Norse agi.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See awe in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe/stand in awe of somebody/something
- to admire somebody/something and be slightly frightened of them/it
- While Diana was in awe of her grandfather, she adored her grandmother.
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