WOKEN
What does "WOKEN" mean?
The past participle of 'wake'; roused from sleep or made aware.
Meanings
- Past participle of 'wake' - to have been roused from sleep. I had just woken when the phone rang.
- Past participle of 'wake' in the sense of becoming alert or aware. Her interest had been woken by the strange letter. figurative
Did you know?
- 'Woken', 'woke', 'awoke', and 'awoken' all coexist because English fused two ancient verbs for waking, leaving us with a small thicket of irregular forms for one simple act.
Word origin
The past participle of 'wake', from Old English 'wacan' ('to awake') and 'wacian' ('to be awake'), from Proto-Germanic 'wakanan', from a Proto-Indo-European root 'weg-' meaning 'to be strong, lively'.
Remember it
WOKEN = WOKE + N: the N is the eyes finally open after the sleeper has woke.
A little poem
Woken before light-
the dream still warm in the room,
the day cold at the sill.
haiku
What it teaches
Being woken is easy; staying awake to what you saw is the harder hour.
Quick facts
What does WOKEN mean?
The past participle of 'wake'; roused from sleep or made aware.
Is WOKEN a valid word?
Yes — WOKEN is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is WOKEN?
WOKEN has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does WOKEN come from?
The past participle of 'wake', from Old English 'wacan' ('to awake') and 'wacian' ('to be awake'), from Proto-Germanic 'wakanan', from a Proto-Indo-European root 'weg-' meaning 'to be strong, lively'.
What can WOKEN teach us?
Being woken is easy; staying awake to what you saw is the harder hour.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.