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woken¹

  • /ˈwəʊ.kən/ UK
  • /ˈwoʊ.kən/ US

Rhymes with -əʊkən

Where it comes from

Morphologically woke + -n.

verb

  1. participle, past past participle of wake

woken²

  • /ˈwəʊ.kən/ UK
  • /ˈwoʊ.kən/ US

Rhymes with -əʊkən

verb wokens · wokening · wokened

  1. ambitransitive To make or become woke or woker. The “wokening” industry swallowed Orr's latest incarnation—the new, improved Rory Rabineau—as a perfect antidote to the perceived poison of his uninsurable “mental instability.”

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: awake, awaken, awakened, awoken, reawakened, roused, waken, wokify, wake up, unsleep, rewake, bewake, rouse, rewaken, wisen, arouse

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"woken." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/woken. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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woken. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/woken

Chicago

"woken." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/woken.

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@misc{woken_2026,
  title = {woken},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/woken},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}