woken
SayWOH-kuhnUS/ˈwoʊ.kən/UK/ˈwəʊ.kən/
- 1Past participle of wake.
By the time the alarm rang, he had already woken on his own.
The entire household was woken by the thunderstorm overnight.
Note
The participle that follows have and be: she had woken early; the house was woken by thunder. It carries every sense of wake, from rousing a sleeper to stirring something dormant into action. Woke serves as the simple past, and woken is the standard participle in modern use. A newer verb shares this spelling, the verb built on woke, but it inflects regularly: wokening, wokened.
Less common meaning
- 2To make or become woke or woker.
woken is a form of wake
wake, verb: To stop sleeping and become conscious and alert, or to make someone do this. Full entry
- Spelling
- wake → woken: irregular (no -ed)
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Origin
Formed from "woke" with the suffix "-n".