—used to express mild disappointment, gentle entreaty, or real or mock sympathy or sentiment
1
actual weight
2
aircraft warning
3
articles of war
4
automatic weapon
Examples of aw in a Sentence
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Bill Chappell, NPR, 16 July 2025
And then … aw, just cue up the video player for the epic Francisco Lindor homer that won this thing!
—Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
Deadline was the first to report the news, with the outlet saying Quinn has been inseparable with a guitar — aw — while filming Fantastic Four overseas.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
Trump Media, which trades as DJT on the Nasdaq, aw its market cap fall more than 40% between Tuesday afternoon and Friday.
—Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,jake Piazza,annie Nova,rebecca Picciotto,ece Yildirim, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
There’s that, ‘Oh gosh’ kind of ‘aw shucks’ thing going on.
—Gary Graff, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2024
Studies of fathers have generated some alarmist headlines over the years, and Hrdy has kindly collated them: no dad joke: fatherhood shrinks the brain; aw,nuts!
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
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Interjection
In the north of the British Isles, people sometimes combined ye, a second person plural pronoun for you, along with aw, meaning all.
—Bill Chappell, NPR, 16 July 2025
And then … aw, just cue up the video player for the epic Francisco Lindor homer that won this thing!
—Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
Deadline was the first to report the news, with the outlet saying Quinn has been inseparable with a guitar — aw — while filming Fantastic Four overseas.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
Trump Media, which trades as DJT on the Nasdaq, aw its market cap fall more than 40% between Tuesday afternoon and Friday.
—Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,jake Piazza,annie Nova,rebecca Picciotto,ece Yildirim, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
There’s that, ‘Oh gosh’ kind of ‘aw shucks’ thing going on.
—Gary Graff, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2024
Studies of fathers have generated some alarmist headlines over the years, and Hrdy has kindly collated them: no dad joke: fatherhood shrinks the brain; aw,nuts!
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
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“Aw.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aw. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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interjection
—used to express mild sympathy, pleading, disbelief, or disappointment
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