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- avenue noun (an avenue, avenues)
A wide street in a town or city, often with trees along the sides. - aver verb (avers, averred, averring)
1) To aver is to say something firmly, as if it were certainly true. This is an old or formal word. - average noun (average, averages); adjective (average); verb (average, averages, averaged, averaging)
The average (mean) is the number you get when you share a total equally: add the numbers, then divide by how many there are. - averse adjective (averse) — used after a verb
Not liking something or strongly against it: «averse to» something. - aversion noun (aversion, aversions)
1) A strong dislike of something. 2) A feeling of wanting to avoid something. - avert verb (avert, averts, averted, averting)
To avert something bad means to stop it from happening, as in «avert a disaster». - averting verb form (averting), the -ing form of «avert»
1) Stopping something bad from happening. 2) Turning your eyes or face away. - avian adjective (avian)
1) To do with birds: «avian flu» is bird flu. 2) (science) Belonging to birds as a group: «avian dinosaurs» means birds, which scientists… - aviary noun (an aviary, aviaries)
An aviary is a large cage, building or enclosed space where birds are kept, big enough for them to fly about. - aviation noun (aviation)
1) Flying aircraft, and everything to do with building, running and flying planes. - avocado noun (avocado, avocados; also avocadoes)
An avocado is a pear-shaped fruit with dark green or black skin, soft pale-green flesh and one big seed (stone) in the middle. - avoid verb (avoid, avoids, avoided, avoiding); adjective avoidable
To avoid something means to keep away from it. - avoidance noun (avoidance, uncountable)
1) The act of keeping away from something or not doing something. - avow verb (avow, avows, avowed, avowing)
1) (formal) To say something openly and firmly, to declare it. 2) (formal) To admit or confess something openly. - await verb (await, awaits, awaited, awaiting)
1) (formal) To await is to wait for something. 2) To await can mean to be ready or waiting for someone: A surprise awaits you. - awake adjective (awake); verb (awake, awakes, awoke, awoken — old-fashioned or in stories)
1) Awake means not sleeping. 2) To awake (or awaken) means to wake up or to make someone wake up. 3) Wide awake means fully awake and alert. - awaken verb (awaken, awakens, awakened, awakening); noun awakening
To wake up, or to wake someone up (a bit formal or story-like). - award noun (an award, awards); verb (award, awards, awarded, awarding)
A prize or a reward given for doing something well. - aware adjective (aware, more aware, most aware — after a verb)
If you are aware of something, you know about it or notice it. - awareness noun (awareness — uncountable)
Awareness is knowing about something or noticing it. - away adverb; adjective (an away game)
Away means off to another place, not here any more: the bird flew away. - awe noun (awe, uncountable); verb (awe, awes, awed, awing)
A strong feeling of wonder and respect, sometimes with a little fear, when you see something huge, beautiful or powerful. - awesome adjective (awesome, more awesome, most awesome)
Awesome means very good, great or cool, as in «That film was awesome!». - awful adjective (awful, more awful, most awful); adverb (informal, US: awful nice)
Awful means very bad or unpleasant: awful weather, an awful smell. - awfully adverb (awfully)
1) (informal, a little old-fashioned) Very; extremely: «awfully kind», «awfully sorry». 2) Very badly: «He behaved awfully.» - awhile adverb (also spelt «a while»)
1) Awhile means for a short time: wait awhile. After a word like «after» or «for», we write «a while» as two words. - awkward adjective (awkward, more awkward, most awkward)
Awkward means uncomfortable or embarrassing, when you don't know what to say or do. - awkwardly adverb (awkwardly)
In a clumsy way that is not smooth or easy, as in «he fell awkwardly». - awkwardness noun (awkwardness, uncountable)
The feeling of being uncomfortable or embarrassed, especially in a social situation. - awl noun (awls)
1) An awl is a small, sharp, pointed tool used to make holes in leather, wood or cloth, for example when sewing. - awn noun (awn, awns)
1) (science) A thin, stiff bristle growing from the seed head of some grasses and grains, like barley and wheat. - awry adverb or adjective (no change in form)
1) Awry means crooked, not straight or not in its right place: a hat set awry. 2) «Go awry» means go wrong and not turn out as planned. - ax noun (an ax, axes); verb (ax, axes, axed, axing)
An ax is a tool with a heavy metal blade on a long handle, used for chopping wood. - axe noun (an axe, axes; US also ax); verb (axe, axes, axed, axing)
An axe is a tool with a heavy metal blade on a long handle, used for chopping wood or cutting down trees. - axial adjective (axial)
1) About an axis: the line around which something turns or which runs through its middle. - axis noun (an axis, axes)
An axis is an imaginary straight line that something spins around, like the Earth's axis. - axle noun (axle, axles)
1) An axle is a rod or bar that goes through the centre of a wheel, or joins two wheels, so the wheels can turn. - axolotl noun (an axolotl, axolotls)
1) An axolotl is a Mexican salamander, an amphibian that keeps its baby features all its life: feathery pink gills on its head and a tail… - aztec noun (an Aztec, the Aztecs); adjective (Aztec)
1) The Aztecs were a people who built a great empire in what is now central Mexico, with their capital Tenochtitlan built on a lake, until… - azure adjective (also a noun)
1) Azure means a bright, clear blue, like a cloudless sky.
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