Meaning of wideawake | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Ascension Island
   US, informal
2. A bird, the sooty tern.
3. A type of hat with a broad brim made of black or brown felt.
   historical

Examples

“1884, Henry James, "The Author of Beltraffio" in The English Illustrated Magazine 1 (9–10) (June–July 1884). "He carried his benevolence to the point⟳ of coming to meet⟳ me at the little station at which I was to alight, and my heart beat⟳ very fast as I saw⟳ his handsome face⟳, surmounted with a soft wide-awake, and which I knew by a photograph long since enshrined upon my mantel shelf, scanning the carriage windows as the train⟳ rolled up."”

“1912, Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman At The Store", from "Selected Short Stories" Wisps of white hair straggled from under his wideawake […]”

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