1. [n]  an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; "he stared over the edge with a feeling of awe"
2. [n]  a profound fear inspired by a deity
3. [v]  inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the undergraduates"

AWE is a 3 letter word that starts with A.

1. \Awe\ ([add]), n. [OE. a[yogh]e, aghe, fr. Icel. agi; akin
   to AS. ege, [=o]ga, Goth. agis, Dan. ave chastisement, fear,
   Gr. 'a`chos pain, distress, from the same root as E. ail.
   [root]3. Cf. {Ugly}.]
   1. Dread; great fear mingled with respect. [Obs. or
      Obsolescent]
            His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook
            the delinquent with such fits of awe. --Cowper.
   2. The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an
      undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime;
      reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence.
            There is an awe in mortals' joy, A deep mysterious
            fear.                                 --Keble.
            To tame the pride of that power which held the
            Continent in awe.                     --Macaulay.
            The solitude of the desert, or the loftiness of the
            mountain, may fill the mind with awe -- the sense of
            our own littleness in some greater presence or
            power.                                --C. J. Smith.
   {To stand in awe of}, to fear greatly; to reverence
      profoundly.
   Syn: See {Reverence}.
   

2. \Awe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Awed} (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Awing}.]
   To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to
   control by inspiring dread.
         That same eye whose bend doth awe the world. --Shak.
         His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the
         bystanders.                              --Macaulay.
   

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