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English

Etymology

From Old French coler, acoler (“accoll, throw arms round neck of”); ultimately from Latin ad + collum (“neck”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?l/
• Homophone: call (with the cot-caught merger)

Verb

coll (third-person singular simple present colls, present participle colling, simple past and past participle colled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To hug or embrace.

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Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?k??/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan, from Latin collum.

Noun

coll m (plural colls)

1. (anatomy) neck
2. (anatomy) throat

   Synonym: gola

3. (clothing) collar (part of a garment)
4. neckline
5. (card games) suit

Derived terms

• collada
• collejar
• colltort

Etymology 2

From Latin colle, collis (“hill”).

Noun

coll m (plural colls)

2. (archaic or regional) hill

   Synonyms: puig, turó

3. col, pass (through hills)

   Synonym: pas

Derived terms

• collet

Further reading

• “coll” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “coll” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “coll” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.

Irish

Alternative forms

• call (Ulster)

Etymology

From Old Irish coll, from Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”) (compare Welsh cyll).

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /kal??/ (corresponding to the alternative form call)

Noun

coll m (genitive singular coill)

1. hazel (“wood of a hazelnut tree”)

Declension

Derived terms

• cnó coill
• crann coill

Mutation

References

• "coll" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kol?/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”), from Proto-Indo-European *koselos (“hazel”) (compare Welsh cyll).

Noun

coll m

1. hazel (tree)

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: coll
• Manx: coull
• Scottish Gaelic: coll

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *koldom (“destruction”).

Noun

coll n

1. destruction, injury, violation

Inflection

Descendants

• Scottish Gaelic: coll

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 coll (‘hazel tree’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 coll (‘destruction’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish coll (“hazel”), from Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”) (compare Welsh cyll).

Noun

coll m

1. hazel (tree)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish coll (“destruction”), from Proto-Celtic *koldom (“destruction”).

Noun

coll m

1. destruction

English

Etymology

From awe +? -some; compare Old English e?eful (“fearful; inspiring awe”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???s?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??s.?m/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /??s.?m/

Adjective

awesome (comparative more awesome or awesomer, superlative most awesome or awesomest)

1. (dated) Causing awe or terror; inspiring wonder or excitement. [from 1590–1600.]

   Synonyms: awe-inspiring; see also Thesaurus:awesome
2. (colloquial) Excellent, exciting, remarkable.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excellent

Usage notes

The oldest meaning of awesome is of “something which inspires awe”, but the word is now also a common slang expression. It was originally so used in the United States, where it had featured strikingly in the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, as used by Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to describe the "awesome" industrial potential of the United States. Consequently, as the word popularly became an expression for anything superb, in its original meaning it has tended to be replaced by the related word, awe-inspiring.

The comparative and superlative forms awesomer and awesomest are generally regarded as nonstandard.

Antonyms

• aweless

Derived terms

• awesome sauce (slang)
• awesomely
• awesomeness
• awesomenessness (nonce word, rare, nonstandard)
• awesometastic

Related terms

• awe-inspiring
• awful

Translations

Noun

awesome (uncountable)

1. (slang) Short for awesomeness: the quality, state, or essence of being awesome.

   Synonym: (slang) awesome sauce

   Antonyms: (slang) fail, (vulgar) shit, (slang) weaksauce

   • 2011, Gwen Hayes, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Samhain Publishing, Ltd. (2011), ?ISBN, page 6:

     Plus, her patent leather boots were made of awesome. They made her legs look longer and leaner.

   • 2011, Kevin Seccia, Punching Tom Hanks: Dropkicking Gorillas and Pummeling Zombified Ex-Presidents—A Guide to Beating Up Anything, St. Martin's Press (2011), ?ISBN, page 189:

     Swayze, of course, is the being of pure awesome who has by now conquered all of Heaven.

   • 2013, Carrie Jones, Captivate, Bloomsbury (2010), ?ISBN, page 150:

     “Your grandmother,” he mumbles into my hair as we cuddle on the couch, “is made of awesome.”

Further reading

• awesome (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia