Meanings
wideawake1
plural wideawakes · alternative wide-awake
- A bird, the sooty tern.
- historicalA type of hat with a broad brim made of black or brown felt.
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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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."
Synonyms: wideawake hat
Wideawake2
- USinformalAscension Island
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA type of hat with a broad brim made of black or brown felt.
Origin
wideawake · noun
* From wide awake. * (hat): From a pun in Punch magazine, relating to the fact that the hat had no nap.
Full word history & related roots →Wideawake · proper noun
Named after a nearby colony of wideawakes, or sooty terns.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Māori wairaweki
- wairawekiA type of hat, with a broad brim made of black or brown felt
Cite this entry
wideawake. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wideawake
“wideawake.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wideawake. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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