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aww

/ɔː/

aww interjection: elongated form of aw.

Interjection

  1. Elongated form of aw.
    • Aww, that's so sad: he hasn't yet learned to ride a bike.
    • Aww, look at the kitten curled up in her lap!

Verb

aww (third-person singular simple present awws, present participle awwing, simple past and past participle awwed)

  1. To make an aww sound.

aww meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Gujarati

aww in Tamil

ஏ. டபிள்யூ. டபிள்யூ

aww in Urdu

اے ڈبلیو ڈبلیو

aww in Gujarati

એ. ડબ્લ્યૂ. ડબલ્યુ, એ. ડબ્લ્યુ. ડબલ્યુ

Examples of aww in a sentence

  • THE BELL MAN. (Sits on the bed and bounches up and down.) Awwww, Great Gawd-a-mighty!1973, Alice Childress, Wedding Band: A Love-Hate Story in Black and White, Samuel French, →ISBN, page 15:
  • She slid the goody out into her hand and gave a little aww.2016, Gail Chianese, Fiancé for Keeps, Lyrical Press, →ISBN:
  • It was so sweet and puppy-lovey that I was like, "Aww, I wanted to read some sauciness!"2018, Anna Kendrick, quoted in Chris Azzopardi, "Anna Kendrick, Fresh with a Twist", Hotspots!, 6 September 2018, page 39

Forms of aww

third-person singular presentawws
present participleawwing
past participleawwed
pastawwed

Words formed from aww

Words that rhyme with aww

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Questions about aww

What does aww mean?
Aww means elongated form of aw.
What is aww in Tamil?
Aww in Tamil is ஏ. டபிள்யூ. டபிள்யூ. See Aww meaning in Tamil.
How do you use aww in a sentence?
THE BELL MAN. (Sits on the bed and bounches up and down.) Awwww, Great Gawd-a-mighty!
What part of speech is aww?
Aww can be an interjection or a verb.
How do you pronounce aww?
Aww is pronounced /ɔː/.

Words near aww in the dictionary

  1. awsomest
  2. Awsworth
  3. AWT
  4. AWTs
  5. awujoh
  6. aww
  7. aww yeah
  8. Awwab
  9. Awwad
  10. Awwads
  11. awwed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aww (page history and authors); aww (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); aww (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); aww (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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