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aws

aws is the plural of aw.

Meaning of aw

Noun

aw (plural aws)

  1. An instance of aw.
    • Mr. McGuire, 64, a retired science teacher and two-term incumbent on the Town Council, selected a card, the six of hearts, drawing approving oos and aws from his supporters.2009 June 17, Randal C. Archibold, “Election at a Draw, Arizona Town Cuts a Deck”, in New York Times

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Proper noun capitalized: AWS

AWS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, safety) Initialism of Automatic Warning System.
    • Furthermore, the train was equipped with AWS (Automatic Warning System), which would have provided an audible warning that a signal was being approached.2019 November 6, Paul Stephen, “Cowden: a crash radio could have prevented”, in Rail, page 72
  2. (Internet, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Amazon Web Services.
    • The Skills Center, which is located on Amazon’s corporate headquarters campus in Seattle, Washington, and opens to the public November 22, is the first of its kind for the company. It’s part of a larger commitment to train 29 million people globally in cloud computing by 2025 that AWS made last...2021 November 18, Clare Duffy, “Why Amazon is opening an in-person cloud skills center to train workers for other companies”, in CNN Business

Noun (1) capitalized: AWS

AWS pl (plural only)

  1. (US, abbreviation, initialism, plural, plural-only) Initialism of advanced wireless services

Noun (2) capitalized: AWS

AWS (plural AWSes)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, artificial intelligence) Initialism of autonomous weapons system.
    • “The concern that these weapons might misidentify targets is the least of our worries,” he said. “More significant is the threat of an A.W.S. arms race and proliferation crisis.”2021 June 3, Maria Cramer, quoting James Dawes, “A.I. Drone May Have Acted on Its Own in Attacking Fighters, U.N. Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2021
  2. (UK, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of all-women shortlist.

Forms of aws

pluralAWSes

Questions about aws

What is aws the plural of?
Aws is the plural of aw.
What part of speech is aws?
Aws can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near aws in the dictionary

  1. awroths
  2. AWRT
  3. Awruk
  4. awry
  5. awryness
  6. aws
  7. AWSA
  8. Awsan
  9. Awsanian
  10. Awshar
  11. Awshars

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aws (page history and authors); AWS (page history and authors); aw (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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