agape
/əˈɡeɪp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.65 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention; as with mouth hanging open.
adj
adv
In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention.
adv
noun
A love feast, especially one held in the early Christian Church in connection with the Eucharist.
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Example Sentences
- "[…] in himself was all his state, More solemn then the tedious pomp that waits On Princes, when thir rich Retinue long Of Horses led, and Grooms besmeard with Gold Dazles the croud, and sets them all agape."
- "There I stand, agape like any country bumpkin"
- "That's all well and good; one can sit, agape, reading the copious liner notes to this or any Explorer record, but it's what's inside the jacket that counts."
- "The restaurant staff and OTHER DINNER GUESTS watch, agape."
- "With his mouth agape and his hands clenched, Rufus Dawes, incapable of further speech, made a last effort to nod assent, but his head fell upon his breast; the next moment, the flickering light, the gloomy prison, the eager face of the doctor, and the astonished face of Vickers, vanished from before his straining eyes."
- "He tries not to tear his victim's stockings, or whip too close to her stretched vulva, which shivers, unprotected, between thighs agape and straining, amid movements of muscle erotic, subdued, “monumental” as any silver memory of her body on film."
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Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈɡeɪp/
- British English: /əˈɡeɪp/