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awork

awork adverb: at work; in action.

Adverb

awork (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) At work; in action.
    • […]and ſo the dyſputation beganne, ſette a woꝛke by the Prolocutor with a verye ſhorte pꝛæludium.1563, Iohn Foxe, “Book 5”, in Actes and Monuments of theſe latter and perillous dayes […] , London: Iohn Day, page 1006

Synonyms of awork

Origin of awork

From a- + work.

Questions about awork

What does awork mean?
Awork means at work; in action.
What part of speech is awork?
Awork is an adverb.

Words near awork in the dictionary

  1. awomen
  2. awoo
  3. awooga
  4. awoogah
  5. awook
  6. awork
  7. aworking
  8. AWOS
  9. AWP
  10. AWPs
  11. awqaf

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Adapted from Wiktionary: awork (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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