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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

awave en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /əˈweɪv/

Etymology

From a- + wave.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) waving
    • The place is all awave with trees. 1827, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, An Island:
    • The plains are all awave with grass, The skies are deepest blue 1896, Banjo Paterson, With the Cattle:
    • A sail! A veil awave upon the waves. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 11: